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...
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...
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...
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...