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Confessions of a Language Addict

Teach Yourself Complete...

this weekend, i picked up teach yourself complete italian. i'd been looking at the program for a while, and wondering if it would be better than the more recent teach yourself courses. so far, i'm moderately impressed.in recent years, teach yourself courses have sat astride the past and present. they weren't as grammar focused as before, and the dialogs ... (309 天前)

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Confessions of a Language Addict

Problems of Translation in Language Learning

when you listen to a michel thomas program, you spend a lot of time translating phrases from english to the language you are learning. and yet, when you're done, there's a lot that you can say comfortably, including phrases of your own devising. it occurred to me the other day why this should be so. it turns out that yet another aspect of the michel thom... (309 天前)

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Confessions of a Language Addict

A Michel Thomas forerunner?

i recently came across an arabic primer by sir arthur cotton. his premise is quite interesting:languages are usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a good pronunciation and expression, and freely, and to catch the words from a speaker by the ear were easily and quickly acquired, but this is exactly contr... (309 天前)

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Confessions of a Language Addict

Fun Links

the last week or so, i've been working on two things: filling in gaps (slowly) in my uzbek vocabulary, and taking another look at the romance languages. i've got a sense of some basic uzbek structures and what to do with them, but words are wanting so i decided it was time to be able to talk about some new things. i've got some things i've been trying fo... (309 天前)

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Confessions of a Language Addict

Speaking a language is like riding a bicycle...

the more you do it, the better you get.josh the language geek is writing about his biggest language mistakes. i'd like to look at the first one and toss out a few ideas. here's josh:fluent in 12 weeks!i underestimated, by far, the amount of time and effort required to learn a language. the first language course i ever bought was teach yourself gaelic, wh... (309 天前)

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Confessions of a Language Addict

Who's in charge of Your language learning?

doviende at language fixation has a very nice post on one of the hardest parts of language learning: actually doing something! as he says, we have choices in life, and the choices we make have a real impact on where we end up. for example, what if we choose to daydream about speaking languages more than we study?i could say “i want to learn swedish” ev... (309 天前)

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Confessions of a Language Addict

Instructor Focused Teaching, Michel Thomas & Uzbek!

last week, i noted that i was thinking about what a michel thomas uzbek course would look like, and promised to post some thoughts. in the intervening time, i have got hold of solity's the learning revolution, and have read through the section focused specifically on the michel thomas courses. this has caused me to re-think a few things, and to notice a ... (309 天前)

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