A blog about language learning.
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Celebrity Language Teachers
The seemingly staid world of foreign language instruction may not strike one as the typical place where celebrity is created but in actual fact celebrity language teachers are thriving these days, commanding seriously huge fees and reaching millions of students. Is it a good thing?
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Study Spanish
There are many good reasons to study spanish and there are also a great many methods, tactics and even educational technologies which language learners can employ to reach their ultimate goal of speaking Spanish fluently before old age strikes them down. Read on for our in-depth discussion on learning spanish..
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Learn Language Like a Boss!
There is endless debate on which is the best method to learn a foreign a language but let me be brutally honest – there is of course really only one way to do it right and that is to learn language LIKE A BOSS! Yes it is true, if you don’t do it like a…
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Sleep: the key to language learning?
More news from scientists has just been published which may well be of interest to language learners, particularly those who consider themselves to be bad at language – according to UC Berkeley researchers lack of sleep or poor quality sleep may prevent the brain from storing memories. Clearly since learning a new language depends heavily on…
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Baby Brains Better
Scientists have been hard at work scanning entire brains to find out things such as why babies might learn languages faster or which babies are likely to have better language acquisition ability later and their fascinating results have just been published..
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Duolingo
A trendy new kid on the increasingly crowded block when it comes to online language courses and learning is the innovative and rapidly growing startup Duolingo. There’s no shortage of hype surrounding it, for various reasons, but is it actually any good?
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Learning Spanish
As Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, it stands to reason that learning spanish is both greatly in demand amongst students but also it is a highly useful language to learn which can open many doors, personal and professional.
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Sandwich Technique
You may be thinking the “Sandwich Technique” is something to do with a tasty morsel wrapped in bread of some kind but in fact you’d be very wrong as the Sandwich Technique is actually a method for teaching and learning foreign languages efficiently.
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Best Language Blogs
The internet and more specifically the web is always a great and ever growing source of information and new and exciting ways to waste our precious time online. There are now what often seems like an infinite number and incredibly diverse range of blogs and needless to say that includes many language related blogs, so…
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Free Language Courses
As everyone knows the best things in life are free and that certainly also applies to free language courses and resources which actually do exist if you know where to look. Naturally here on this blog for the terminally bad at language we’re big fans of free stuff as well and so this article will…
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