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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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