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Discovery Languages
January 2, 2023
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Tags: create habits, foreign languages, language learning, languages, learning style, lifelong learning

Find your learning style

Day 2 of our New Year Tips on keeping language learning resolution. How do you like to learn? Grab your language learning notepad and make some notes about how you like to learn. Think about how you learn something new for work or pleasure. Can you read something once and instantly remember it? Do you […]

Discovery Languages
January 1, 2023
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Tags: Discovery Languages, foreign languages, goals, language learning, languages, new year, resolutions

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2023. As it’s the New Year, people often make resolutions about learning or relearning foreign languages. People also often give up on resolutions so how can you stop this from happening? For 10 days, we are giving out a tip per day to help you stick at your language learning resolutions. Tip 1. […]

Discovery Languages
May 23, 2022
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Tags: duolingo, gamification, german, language, learning

The Duolingo language learning app review

There are lots of apps available to help you learn languages. One that I have tried recently is Duolingo, the app with the green owl. www.duolingo.com/learn Duolingo is free (you have to watch adverts and you can only make a certain amount of mistakes before you have to wait to play again) or paid (£90/year […]

Happy Birthday Discovery Languages!

The business is 2 years old! We want to thank all our past and present students, tutors and supporters. We could not have done it without you!

5 things I’ve learned since starting my language school at the start of a global pandemic.

The people are the most important part. Tutors, students, business advisors, friends, family, supporters, likers on Facebook. It doesn’t work without them. Getting good business advice is crucial. We had help from Business Gateway in Dundee and we joined the Dundee Chamber of Commerce early on. They have both offered invaluable advice and useful business […]

Discovery Languages
March 16, 2022
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Tags: Discovery Languages, fun, game, language learning, learn a language in Dundee, lifelong learning

Taboo

Taboo is a great game to help increase your communication skills in a foreign language. The main idea is people have to guess a word eg ‘bones’ but the person explaining the word can not mention the ‘Taboo’ words such as break, skeleton, broken, dog or bones. Sets of Taboo are available freely online, in […]

Learning the imperative

Recipes are a good way to learn the imperative or orders in a language. The imperative is often used speaking to children “Go to bed now!” or in military situations with a command structure, “Quick march!”. In English the imperative isn’t commonly used in friendly informal circumstances, but this can be different with other languages. […]

This PHONETIC LABYRINTH

A student gave me a copy of this poem, written during the 1940s. It is a truly wonderful thing to see the foibles and curiosities of the English language laid out like this. Enjoy-but ignore the last line of the poem if you are an English learner! Thanks to RP. “This PHONETIC LABYRINTH”The following was […]

Vocabulary lists for language learning

What is your goal for learning a language? Do you want to read foreign language books or watch foreign language programs without your native language subtitles? Often lots of the same words for certain genres come up again and again. If you pre-teach yourself some of the vocabulary then you will increase your understanding and […]

Welcome to the Discovery Languages Blog

We love learning languages. Our blog aims to help make the learning process easier, and celebrate these amazing languages on the way!

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