A blog about language learning.
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Dust Off Your Dothraki
In the not too distant future (Mar. 31, 2013 to be precise, according to IMDB) the awesomely epic show “Game of Thrones” returns to our feverishly awaiting TV screens with the whole new and exciting season three.
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New Year, New Language
Apparently the world is still here despite the best efforts of those ancient Mayan pranksters and so what better time to begin to learn a new language than right now at the start of this new year?
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Constructed Languages
If you think you’re bad at learning languages, you could bypass that whole tedious process of learning some complicated foreign language and just go ahead and invent your own language! So called “constructed languages” or “conlangs” are actually not just things made up by children to have secret conversations which their parents wont understand, but…
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Pimsleur Approach Scam
If you are interested in learning another language one of the many products available to help with the process and one of the better known such products is by Pimsleur. However, perhaps because it is so well known and ubiquitous on the net these days the phrase “pimsleur approach scam” apparently often comes to the…
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Does Rosetta Stone Work
Does Rosetta Stone work to learn a foreign language? Can you actually learn and become fluent in a second language using the Rosetta Stone program or is it all just marketing hype?
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Online Language Courses
Language courses come in many flavours and formats from the more traditional school or college based ‘meatspace’ courses to home study programs such as Pimsleur or Rosetta Stone. However these days there is an alternative, or perhaps a complement, to these in the form of online language courses.
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Read it and Weep (or Not)
Reading books instead of just focusing on talking can be a great way to improve language learning and vocabulary acquisition.
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Tomatoes boost language learning
The humble tomato is in fact a great asset to language learners, hard though it may be to believe but it really is true. In fact not just for students of language but in also any academic study can be improved simply by using tomatoes.
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Pimsleur vs Rosetta Stone
There are many reviews around of Pimsleur and Rosetta but it can be useful to see how they compare so here is Pimsleur vs Rosetta Stone – which is better?
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Language Learning: you will FAIL if you do this one thing
There are many ways to learn a language and lots of tools and techniques to help, but if you do this one thing you will FAIL at language learning.
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