Language Learning

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• Expat Interview: Jonas Anderson and Christy Gibson

  
  Women Learning Thai... and some men too ;-) — Authority: 415
  Jonas & Christy and Thailand’s ลูกทุ่ง (lôok tôong)… In WLT’s Successful Thai Language Learners series, those interviewed began studying the Thai language in their twenties and older. Jonas and Christy came into the Thai language scene quite a bit younger. Jonas Anderson ...
  19 hours ago

• UK Rewards Top Business Language Champions With Awards

  
  Naked News — Authority: 177
  Successful West Midlands entrepreneur and Director of Acuwomen, Angela Maxwell, added another title to her name this week when she won the Business Language Champions Ambassador Award.
  1 day ago

• UK Rewards Top Business Language Champions With Awards

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 164
  Angela Maxwell, Director of Acuwomen and one of the West Midlands’ most successful entrepreneurs added another accolade to her name this week when she walked away with the Business Language Champions Ambassador Award. The Award, which was presented to Angela at a ceremony at the Imagination Gallery in London, ...
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• learning new expressions

  
  blackpurl's knitpickings — Authority: 124
  Tom came home from Yakutia yesterday and we are so happy to have him home. He told us about an expression he heard there. If someone is totally irritating you and you have had it with their behavior to describe this situation you can say that the person is "sitting in your kidney."
  2 days ago

• An Easy Way to Learn Foreign Languages: Part Two

  
  Women Learning Thai... and some men too ;-) — Authority: 415
  Luca Lampariello’s language learning method… To refresh your memory of Luca’s previous post, An Easy Way to Learn Foreign Languages: Part One , here are the main points of his language learning method: The timeframe of the method is: Quality, then quantity. The method is based upon a strategy of: Often, ...
  2 days ago

• Reseach about LingQ

  
  The Linguist - language learning should be fun — Authority: 471
  If any one is doing research on language learning, you may beinterested in the following call for papers. It would be nice to do aproject about LingQ. Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2010), April 26-28, 2010, Toronto, Canada ( www.ciceducation.org ) The CICE is an international refereed ...
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• You do not need #language instruction in order to learn a language.

  
  The Linguist - language learning should be fun — Authority: 471
  You do not need language instruction in order to learn a language. Thatis right. It is not necessary. There is nothing wrong with it, but itis not the only way. In fact I doubt if a majority of people learnanother language through formal instruction. Essentially you need time,motivation and activities that help you ...
  2 days ago

• Why Learning Spanish is Important

  
  Unique-Article-Database.com — Authority: 158
  It became vital for me to learn Spanish when I moved to Peru.   I was going to be living in this beautiful Latin American country, and I needed to be able to shop, get taxis or ride buses, go to the bank – all those things that make up our daily lives. Most of all, I needed to be able to converse with my two new ...
  3 days ago

• Teaching Spanish to illegal American immigrants in Mexico.

  
  The Linguist - language learning should be fun — Authority: 471
  Lets assume I were teaching Spanish to illegal American immigrants to Mexico. I use this example because of the ongoing debate at my language and literacy listserv on the role of language teachers. The prevalent view amongst the teachers on the listserv is that rigorous linguistics courses, theories about education, ...
  3 days ago

• Listening to stories is more effective than traditional classroom language study

  
  The Linguist - language learning should be fun — Authority: 471
  Beniko Mason has done a lot of interesting research on language acquisition. Here is a report on Japanese students learning German, which suggests that listening to stories is more effective than traditional instruction. Check out the rest of her website
  4 days ago

• An Easy Way to Learn Foreign Languages: Part One

  
  Women Learning Thai... and some men too ;-) — Authority: 415
  Introducing Luca and his language learning method… Luca Lampariello is an Italian polyglot who speaks 9 languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, and Portuguese. Chinese is his latest language project, and learning to speak Thai is a real possibility! When Luca was barely ...
  5 days ago

• A jump on Christmas.

  
  sixtyfivewhatnow — Authority: 116
  This town will celebrate Christmas through Giving Trees, baskets give-a-way, can drives reminding residents to shop locally the hardware shop, the movie theater the art council, restaurants the flower shop the grocery store. Well all do our part to share what we have to help and to care. ...
  6 days ago

• Think Like Chinese

  
  Tai Shan — Authority: 117
  Before I left Shanghai for Singapore a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of   Think Like Chinese by Zhang Haihua and Geoff Baker.  The look of the volume was attractive (I know, I know… don’t judge a book by its cover!), and the idea of trying to get inside “the Chinese mind” appeals to me, so I ...
  6 days ago

• #bilingual dictionaries or monolingual dictionaries for language learners.

  
  The Linguist - language learning should be fun — Authority: 471
  I essentially only use bilingual dictionaries when reading in a foreign language, even for languages that I speak well. I have never understood the arguments in favour of using monolingual dictionaries.  I guess it depends on how you use dictionaries. I use dictionaries as little as possible. I want in and out as ...
  6 days ago

• Thinking of Learning A Language? An Overview Of The World’s Easiest and Most Difficult Languages

  
  Matador Abroad — Authority: 509
  Feature Photo: sara~’s Photo: marmouzet From Spanish to Swahili, the world’s easiest and most difficult languages. According to an overview of the 14 most popular language course offerings in the U.S , the U.S state department groups languages into three categories: Category 1: The Latin and Germanic ...
  1 week ago

• "anti #Anti-moon. A different take on things.

  
  The Linguist - language learning should be fun — Authority: 471
  Anti-moon is a popular website where language learners discuss anddebate issues surrounding languages and language learning. The learning philosophy at anti-moon has manythings in common with what I believe; the importance of input, the needfor motivation, and the relative inefficiency of the classroom anddeliberate ...
  1 week ago

• Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners: Daniel T. Murphy

  
  Women Learning Thai... and some men too ;-) — Authority: 415
  Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Daniel T. Murphy, Ph.D. Nationality: American Age range: 40-50 Sex: Male Location: Berkeley, California, USA & Bangkok, Thailand Profession: Educational & School Psychologist, Licensed Educational Psychologist What is your Thai level? I ...
  1 week ago

• Real Life in Second Life: Spanish Immersion Learning Experience

  
  SLentrepreneur Magazine — Authority: 120
  By Sappho ZapateroThe Spanish Institute (or Instituto Español) in Second Life first caught my eyes several months ago, when my friend, who is learning Spanish, found the program and sent a photograph of himself standing at an alter.  Curiosity got the best of me and I visited the site several times over the course ...
  1 week ago

• Psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic evidence for L2 constructions

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  In Construction Grammar, highly frequent syntactic configurations are assumed to be stored as symbolic units in the mental lexicon alongside words. Considering the example of gerund and infinitival complement constructions in English (She tried rocking the baby vs. She tried to rock the baby), this study combines ...
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• Extraordinary musical instrument video and other videos of interest

  
  No_Holds_Bard — Authority: 99
  This highly technical, musical and creative-fun video "Extraordinary musical instrument" was drawn to my attention and added to my talent list on the vertical menu bar. Pity I do not know who the author is in order to respect the Talented People focus of this list. During my search for the link, which I found on ...
  1 week ago

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