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The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #25 January / February 2017
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FEATURED
Make Your Own Language Group
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Learning a language is easier when you do with it group, where you can share the experience and practise easily. But how do you find such a group? Teddy Nee has some suggestions on finding them and making your own.
A History of Research in Study Abroad
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Olivier Elzingre gives us an indepth history on Study Abroad programs and their development on two continents.
Parrot Time on Patreon
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Languages in Peril
Sayonara, Ainu
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Indigenous languages and people are often wiped out by an invading force or a competing culture. Such it is with the Ainu people of northern Japan, but they did not give up without a fight.
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Make Your Own Language Group
Learning a language is easier when you do with it group, where you can share the experience and practise easily. But how do you find such a group? Teddy Nee has some suggestions on finding them and making your own.
A History of Research in Study Abroad
Olivier Elzingre gives us an indepth history on Study Abroad programs and their development on two continents.
Parrot Time on Patreon
Patrons have an honored practice of making great works of art and architecture come to life. Now is your a chance to become a patron to another great work, Parrot Time.
Languages in Peril
Sayonara, Ainu
Indigenous languages and people are often wiped out by an invading force or a competing culture. Such it is with the Ainu people of northern Japan, but they did not give up without a fight.
COLUMNS
Letter From The Editor
No Politics
Politcal partisanship is everywhere. Let's keep it out of our language pursuits.
At the Cinema
La Coppia dei Campioni
Here is another comedy that puts two very different people together on a trip full of problems. Familiar, but funny?
Where Are You?
Guess the city and country from the article and picture.
Book Look
The Bible of the Language Learners and Polyglots
A review of Jimmy Mello's book "The Bible of the Language Learners and Polyglots".
Basic Guide to Romanian
Romanian is a Romance language which is spoken by about 24 million people mainly in Romania and Moldova. Here are some beginner words and phrases in Romanian for you to g...
At A Glance
Quick look at various language websites and resources
IN OTHER ISSUES
Revisited
Early Bardic Literature in Ireland
The literature of a country is often founded firmly in the history and even the land of the country itself. In Ireland, the richness of the recorded history acutely mingl...
Languages in Peril
The Good Language of Brazil
Many of the indigenous languages of the Brazilian Amazon are dying out. EugĂȘnio Brito describes exactly what is happening to one, and what he and others are doing to sav...
Polyglot Events All Around The World
You Are Not Alone
Sometimes when we study independently, we can feel isolated in our language pursuits. However, as Jimmy Mello shows us, there are language meetings going on all around th...
Montreal LangFest 2017: Another blowout success
Every year, an event called LangFest takes place in Montreal, Canada, to celebrate and promote language learning around the world. One of this year's organizers, Tetsu Yu...
Language Learning is for everyone!
You can't learn a language without resources. More importantly, you need resources that others have found useful. So how do you find them? Welcome to the Language Learnin...
Which Language Is...?
People love to ask questions about languages and language learning. There are a variety of them that really can't be answered, and it those that we will attempt to answer...
A Medley of Virtual Languages
LingoHut is a free online language learning platform. Founder Kendal Knetemann writes about its concept, history, and how we can all help each other.
The Phaistos Disc
Puzzle of Crete
Perhaps the worlds greatest linguistic puzzle, the Phaistos Disc, found in the basement of an ancient palace, has confused scholars for a century with it's unknown text a...
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