When I was approached by Rocket Languages last year to do a review I really wasn’t especially optimistic. The program looked overpriced and I was really unsure of how effective it would ultimately be. This review of Rocket Languages has taken me far longer than any I’ve done in the past because I really wanted to…
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*Note* This list is a couple of years old. In that time, some of these apps have changed considerably, some of them for the better – some maybe not so much. I can’t say that my feelings for any of them are particularly strong and many still have the same issues they did when this was…
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In an earlier post about the first steps one should take when starting a new language I mentioned my method of classifying tools into something I like to refer to as primary and secondary language learning strategies. Any language learner who is serious about pursuing their language goals – be they long term or shorter term – needs to pay…
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins a single step…” Or so they claim. Studying a new language isn’t always especially difficult to do in and of itself. Sure, there are hurdles; words you just can’t seem to nail down and difficulties managing your time, but in general the hardest part of learning a new language…
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My office is almost always messy; a fact that irritates my wife and leads my feet to small sharp objects from time to time. Every so often I attempt to clean it a little bit but following Christmas this year I am finally able to take advantage of the piles of junk and use my…
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It’s a new year, a clean slate, a fresh start, and I’m just about to begin a brand new major language project: French! In any case; 2014 was a great year for LATG. We went from 8,000 fans to over 20,000 fans on Facebook. Constructed a Twitter account that now has a humble but not…
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