Translation is like a roll of toilet paper – most people don’t really think about it until they’re sitting there without it, wondering how awkward it’s going to be to yell to their hardly sympathetic girlfriend for assistance. Fortunately for the toilet paper, it isn’t in any danger of losing its job any time…
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The struggle to balance your language learning time with everything else you do in a day can be a pain in the ass, but you don’t have to stop doing the other things in life that you love (or maybe don’t love) to do. There are ways that you can fit language learning into your…
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With so many language learning tools, apps, courses and online exchanges, it can sometimes be a bit frustrating trying to find a useful and safe language exchange program, and many, if not most of us, have run afoul of the weird side of language exchanges at some point. Unfortunately, the online world has never exactly…
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by Jesse Reyes German, Russian, Czech, and Turkish…what do these languages have in common with one another? They all use grammatical cases. I first encountered cases when I started to study Russian. Previously the only other languages I had any experience with were Spanish and my native English. Needless to say, when I first…
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I am one of the biggest fans of digitizing the classroom and the use of language learning apps and strategies that you’re likely to find. I think that language documentation and revitalization will be driven by advances and increases in the availability of tech – particularly mobile tech – among researchers and native communities. Basically,…
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by Kamil Riaz It is a widely accepted notion that the best age to learn a new language is during childhood. This belief generally stems from the ‘critical period hypothesis’, which was popularized by linguist and neurologist, Eric Heinz Lenneberg, back in the 1960s. According to this hypothesis, the critical time for successful acquisition of…
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