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Book Look
To be honest, I don't know when or where I picked this book up. I feel like I have always had it. While the cover is appealing, it doesn't appear imposing, as if it is going to unlock some great secrets. It's not a large book, nor is it glossy or flashy....
May / June 2015
Letter From The Editor - Studying in Summer
For those living in the Northern hemisphere, these months of July and August are the glorious months of summer. We head to the beach to soak up the hot temperatures and recharging sun rays. Swimming and people watching round out this annual pilgrimage...
July / August 2015
Playing Games with Language
One of the current ideas being put to use in learning systems online is that of gamification. That 5-syllable word essentially means taking something which is normally a lot of work to do and making it fun, like a game. The idea isn't new. People have...
July / August 2015
Can a Language Die?
Many people involved with languages are concerned about endangered languages. When too few people speak a language natively, that language is at risk of becoming extinct. Once the last speaker of it dies, there is no one left to speak it, and so it...
July / August 2015
At the Cinema - La Casa del Fin de los Tiempos
I don't normally watch horror films, mainly because most of the time I find them to be overtly gory and violent while having no real plot. They are attempting to simply gross out the audience or scare them with lots of sudden bangs and movements.
The...
July / August 2015
Words in Your Mouth - Apple
We take a bite out of a juicy topic this month: apple.
Few fruits are as universally recognized as the apple. These handy fruits can be eaten directly from the tree, cooked along with meat for extra seasoning, or mashed into a sweet "sauce" for dessert....
July / August 2015
Book Look - Fluency Made Achievable: The Fluent Guide to Core Language Skills
The book in review this month is Fluency Made Achievable: The Fluent Guide to Core Language Skills by Kerstin Hammes. It is available from Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats, as well as part of a wonderful bundle package featuring this book,...
July / August 2015
At A Glance
General Language
The Polyglot Project
The idea behind the Polyglot Project is to help you get fluent in whatever language you're trying to learn. They have pulled together a library of foreign language content for you to work with, starting with classic...
July / August 2015
Letter From The Editor - Free Things
We are living during a wonderful period of technology growth, in which we are able to find a multitude of free language learning resources and materials. We can communicate directly with people all over the world to practise our languages, at no cost...
September / October 2015
The Cost of Free Language Resources
You are going to learn a new language. You have talked with others, done the research, and made the choice of which you want to tackle. That is the first part of the process. Now you need to start gathering the various materials and resources you are...
September / October 2015
At the Cinema - Cambio de Ruta
The theme behind this month's film is "Always pursue your dream". It is also "Take a chance on love". There is also a third one: "We must learn about the natural world around us, respect it, and always protect it".
That's right. Cambio de Ruta has three...
September / October 2015
Book Look - Language Master Key
The book in review this month is Language Master Key by Ron Gullekson. It is available from Amazon as a Kindle ebook.
Ron is a native English speaker who a technical writer and translator in Florida, USA. He has studied Arabic, German, and Spanish...
September / October 2015
At A Glance
General Language
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects features free to use games for learning 80 languages+. Within are games for learning phrases, numbers, vocabulary, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets. This website runs best with Macromedia...
September / October 2015
Letter From The Editor - The Importance of Travel
I wrote a blog article recently in which I asked the question of whether language learning and travelling needed to be automatically linked in the modern age. Traditionally, resources like audio courses and phrasebooks have presented material to aid...
November / December 2015
The Secret Life of Diacritics
For those of us who have grown up with English as our native language, we are very comfortable with our Latin alphabet. It is composed of 26 letters, 5 of which are vowels and the rest of which are consonants. Nothing tricky about it.
Well, at least...
November / December 2015
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