Parrot Time Magazine

The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #10 July / August 2014


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A Language Dream
Last night I had a sort of a language dream, that is, a dream involved with language-learning or with speaking foreign languages. Dreaming in a foreign language is not uncommon among language enthusiasts, the so-called "language freaks", but this...
May / June 2013
New Souls
Ronald woke up as if it was just another ordinary day. He couldn't imagine what surprises the linguistic world reserved for him under the striking mid-afternoon sun. Having been into the language "business" for so long, he had been lately resigned...
July / August 2013
Cracking the Code
Reading is usually the first skill you manage to acquire satisfactorily in a foreign language. Even though you might have memorized some key sentences and their expected answers from a phrasebook or from your beginner's textbook, it is much more likely...
November / December 2013
Language Learning and Translation
Have you ever been told by a language teacher that you should avoid translating at all costs and try to understand and think in the native language all the time? I have, but it does not work for me, at least not in the early stages. As a matter of...
July / August 2014