Are you looking for new and different ways to integrate your language learning aspirations with the lifestyle you want to lead? I’ve always been a pretty hardcore PC gamer. I mean to the extent that I’ve probably spent a larger portion of my life killing pixellated men, building make believe cities and stealing gold from dragons…
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With so many language learners – or prospective language learners – struggling to “find the time” to learn languages it’s always a heavy burden trying to convince people that learning a language isn’t about having the time, it’s about finding the time; creating it. But once you’ve figured out how to manage your time and…
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When it comes to learning a new language the single greatest strategy is going to be any in which there is direct contact between yourself and a native speaker – be they a professional teacher in a classroom setting, a one on one tutor or just a fellow language learner with whom you’re engaged in…
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If you’re looking for a new language learning program to throw in with your existing strategies I may have found just the thing for you. Linkword Languages is a unique piece of software designed around a fast paced, mnemonic learning model that uses an approach I haven’t actually seen before; which says something. But before…
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It may seem these days that the age of the public library has all but run its course. With Internet access more common than not many – if not most – of us have turned away from this traditional font of learning and education. But when it comes to language learning, it’s important for us…
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Counting the languages you know When I finished secondary school, I thought I knew two and a half languages – my native Estonian, English that I mostly picked up from the media, and some basic German that I had studied from grade six onward. German was always a grey area, as I’d started from scratch in school…
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