Letter From The Editor
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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
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
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
Letter From The Editor - Making it Happen
The new year is upon us again and many people have made resolutions for what they plan to achieve in 2016. Losing weight, getting in shape, learning a new language, and taking over the world are some of the more common promises people make to themselves.
Sad...
January / February 2016
Letter From The Editor - Double Speak
Learning a second language is something that is important to many people, and if you are reading this, you are probably one of those. It can be a passion, a hobby, or a pathway to a better job.
But there are a great many people for which bilingualism...
March / April 2016
Letter From The Editor - A Kind Word
In our modern world of computers and social networks, with each of us trying to have our voices heard while isolating ourselves, it is important to remember how we are all still quite human.
It is easy to forget when we are interacting with names on...
May / June 2016
Letter From The Editor - Culture and Language, Again
I have spoken a number of times about how culture and language are linked together. A major reason people often learn a language is to better understand or to become part of another culture.
The relationship can at times be difficult to define. We...
July / August 2016
Letter From The Editor - Hope and Failing
As we head into the second half of 2016, I can't help but reflect on my time with Parrot Time.
We started this magazine at the start of 2013, meaning it has been in production for over three years. Producing a magazine like this is rewarding, but...
September / October 2016
Letter From The Editor - Saying Without Meaning
People love to talk about how language is the key to communications. We often hear that the main reason for learning a language is to be able to convey our thoughts to others.
While this is true, there is also an ironic part of language we often don't...
November / December 2016
Letter From The Editor - No Politics
The recent presidential election in the US was highly divisive. Months later, we are still bombarded daily with constant streams of news, both real and fake, about what is being said and done by people of both parties.
In an effort to get away from...
January / February 2017
Letter From The Editor - Nom de Plume
Have you ever written something before and wanted others to read it, but didn't want them to know you wrote it? Maybe it promoted a view you didn't want others to know you had or wasn't the sort of thing you normally wrote and you didn't want people...
March / April 2017
Letter From The Editor - In This Issue
Read, read, read. Study. study, study. Learn, learn, learn.
Sometimes it seems as if all you are doing is trying to cram all the grammar rules and vocabulary of a language into your skull, hoping your head doesn't explode in the process, as you already...
May / June 2017
Letter From The Editor - The Finer Points
"The devil is in the details" is an American English idiom, meaning "there is a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details, meaning that something might seem simple at a first look but will take more time and effort to complete than expected."...
July / August 2017
Letter From The Editor - Language Confusion
I was sitting in a waiting room one day when I noticed a Muslim couple sitting a few feet to the left of me. Another American woman was sitting across from me and started talking to the Muslim woman. The man was focused on his phone and didn't pay...
September / October 2017
Letter From The Editor - Being Special
This issue of Parrot Time is dedicated to the single theme of LingoHut, a website for teaching multiple languages. It is part promotional since LingoHut is a partner of the magazine, but it is also informational, as a major goal for Parrot Time...
November / December 2017
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