That time has come again for a new month of prompts for the Instagram Language Challenge! This month we have the lovely Shannon Kennedy of Eurolinguiste to thank for curating the prompts and image. I think she’s done a great job and I’m really excited for this month’s #IGLC! If you’re new to the Instagram Language Challenge, let me give […]
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This afternoon I’m heading off to Berlin for the Polyglot Gathering! I’m so excited about this as I missed the sign up deadline last year by a matter of days. Although I did get Novi Sad for the Polyglot Conference in October, this is my first Gathering, and I’m told they’re quite different events. Exciting stuff. Today I just wanted […]
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Ooo, this was to the deadline this month! I watched Ida just last night after a crazy busy April. This is probably a really good thing as it’s fresh in my mind and I have a lot I want to say about this film. Let’s jump right into the Ida review. So I picked this film because it won the […]
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En el último blog en español, consideramos algunas otras lenguas de España. Sin embargo, hay también muchos idiomas en otros países hispanohablantes, es decir principalmente en Hispanoamérica. Había actividades en mi curso esta semana sobre dos idiomas en particular: el quechua y el guaraní. Voy a hablar solamente de los dos porque estos son lo que tengo que discutir en […]
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Something exciting is happening today. No, it’s not just Friday. Benny Lewis of Fluent in 3 Months is releasing four new language guides: Why Chinese Is Easy, Why English Is Easy, Why Italian Is Easy, and Why French Is Easy. Why German Is Easy and Why Spanish Is Easy have already been available for some time now, but I was […]
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¡Woo! ¡Es la unidad sobre lenguas! Entonces, cuatro semanas de blog en español sobre lenguas. Otra vez, ¡woo! El primer tema es ‘Lenguas de España’, entonces hoy vamos a examinar eso en más detalle. Vasco El vasco se habla en la región vasca – no hay ningún sorpresa aquí. Lo que es interesante es que es una lengua aislada que […]
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Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Francesco who writes on behalf of FlashSticks. He’s sharing his language story with us. Thanks for such a personal post, Francesco! I’ve always been fascinated by the way people learn and discover new things, languages have been a very large element of this. My name is Francesco and I’m the new Community Manager at […]
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Back in January fellow language bloggers Kerstin Hammes and Chris Broholm hosted the first Language Book Club. A day full of live chats with language bloggers, learners, writers, and all round language lovers from across the world. Not only this but many authors of a great range of language books held exclusive offers on the day! Some even offered free […]
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It feels like it’s been an absolute age since I made a 9 Reasons video. It wasn’t too long ago really. The last one was 9 Reasons to Learn Croatian with reasons by the Shannon Kennedy of Eurolinguiste back in February. Ok, maybe a little while ago! Believe it or not, this video has been in production for a ridiculously […]
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Following on in our little series on enhancing social media to your advantage for language learning, so far about Instagram and Pinterest, today I wanted to share some ideas on using Facebook for language learning. Change the language Chances are most of your Facebook friends speak your native language, which instantly means that a lot of Facebook will always be […]
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