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Language Perceptions
What is your favorite language? Which language do you dislike? What language interests you? Which language irritates you?
As you read those questions, I am guessing you had an answer to each one almost instantly. Even if you would like to diplomatically...
July / August 2017
Language Learning in Resource Poor Languages
With an estimated 7,000 languages in the world1, many are classified as "resource poor" in terms of available materials for learning. In fact, once you move past the "top 100" or so which have translation tools on Google and Bing, it becomes...
July / August 2017
Why Fluent English Language is Important for Business
Communication is a paramount component of human relations. Understanding what the other person wants or needs through mutual language is important. Globalization has in the recent past been very dominant and has had a huge rise in multinational corporations...
July / August 2017
Stepping Up Your Language
If you are reading this magazine you share the same passion that thousands of people around the globe have for languages. Be it the sounds, the script, or even the history or religion behind the languages, there is something special about them...
September / October 2017
Montreal LangFest 2017: Another blowout success
Now, where do I even start...
I’ll start with the conclusion. Montreal LangFest 2017 was P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L.
All in all, about 400 language lovers participated at LangFest 2017, and absolutely everyone had fun.
How do I know?
Participants...
September / October 2017
How Can My Study Book Be Monolingual?
Traditionally, one of the first things people do when they start learning a new language is to get a study book. This is usually easy for those who study a language which is very widely spoken in the world and usually also for those whose native...
September / October 2017
Boredom And Classroom Students - A Teacher's Perspective
At a time when autodidacticism, or self-learning, is celebrated, I would like to take this opportunity to promote the old-fashion formal classroom, by addressing some of the criticism found in web-based language learning platforms.
Often mentioned,...
September / October 2017
Building a Language Dream
Two dreamers started LingoHut at the kitchen table in Aurora, Colorado. One had the technical skills to develop the idea and the other a passion for teaching. They came together years before from two corners of the world, the Netherlands, and...
November / December 2017
Learning Multiple Languages with LingoHut
LingoHut is a popular, free language learning platform. With a recently revamped website, it is even easier to use than before.
The 12 languages Lingohut currently offers, (including English) can be learned and practiced by native speakers of...
November / December 2017
LingoHut - A Simple And Effective Language Learning Resource
I was asked a few weeks ago if I'd write something about LingoHut. As Kendal Knettemann, one half of the platform founder told me, it was not to provide LingoHut with some advertising material, but to fairly inform our readership what LingoHut...
November / December 2017
The Beginning Of A Surprising But Promising Partnership - LingoHut and TeachMe.vn
Sometimes I see the most certified tutors not getting the best feedback from their students as they would expect. The student would say that the tutor is not engaging enough and that they lost their appetite for learning a new language they so desperately...
November / December 2017
The Opportunity to Succeed
So, what does a child refugee from Nicaragua who speaks no English and a lady visiting the Netherlands to promote her site for language learning have in common?
The answer is Kendal Knetemann, the passionate visionary behind LingoHut. As a young...
November / December 2017
Review - LingoHut
First Steps, First Words
There's always a moment of uncertainty when you first attempt to learn a foreign language.
What do I do now? Where do I even start?
It can be overwhelming, really.
You could end up spending a lot of time browsing language...
November / December 2017
The Technical Secrets of LingoHut, Maybe
You have probably seen LingoHut by now, or at least got an idea of what it is like. It is slick. It is powerful. And I can guarantee you, the work that has gone into is phenomenal.
Most will be amazed by the volume of vocabulary there is for each...
November / December 2017
How to Learn Any Language - - Breaking Down the Language Guru Myth
While browsing Amazon books online randomly one day for language resources, I saw a new language book coming out in 2018. The title promised that I would be able to become fluent in any language when using the information found in the book.
I...
January / February 2018
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