What a year, and damn am I glad it’s over… I don’t usually bother with New Year’s resolutions. This is because I feel that most people make them quite halfheartedly and rarely pursue them as serious goals – thus rendering them little more than cheap topics of discussion at New Year’s Eve parties…
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I don’t usually write for companies, agencies or corporations. I write for individual learners, private people looking for a leg up in language learning or a curiosity about language in culture.But this time is different. This time I’m talking directly to you; companies in the language industry, big and small. Some of you are amazing…
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By now, you’ve probably seen the big language companies – Rosetta Stone, Busuu, Babbel and the like – make claims of creating “immersive” environments for language learning. That would be all well and good if it was even remotely possible for a computer program or web browser application to immerse you in anything. To get…
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A few months ago a gamer friend and fellow language enthusiast alerted me to this new(ish) PC game called Influent. Being a diehard gamer, and as it was readily available on Steam, I grabbed it without so much as a second thought. I really had no idea what to expect – a first person exploration…
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Many folks – even within the language enthusiast community – are still having a hard time getting behind endangered language preservation or documentation efforts. At a glance it can be easy to write these languages off as marginal, irrelevant or even downright backwards but upon further examination it should become abundantly clear that in doing…
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I always assert that you should learn a language for love, not for money. But sometimes it does help to know which languages will give your professional profile an extra edge.I’m excited to feature an article from the team at The Language Factory about five of the world’s most influential business languages.Check out the awesome…
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