Sep 12, I've been using effortless english for two years, but I am still not...
I've been using effortless english for two years. Yes, two years. AJ promised fluency in 6 months. However, after TWO Years, I am still not fluent. Yes,
View ArticleFalsos cognatos: eles entendem sexo, você quis dizer ônibus
Viajar é uma maravilha. Os amigos que se fazem, novos lugares a conhecer, novas culturas, gastronomia, idiomas e muitas histórias a contar. Eu já não moro no país onde eu nasci pelo quarto ano...
View ArticleMisleading words: they understand sex, you meant public transport
Traveling is wonderful. The friends you make, new places to discover, new cultures, gastronomy, languages and a lot of stories to tell. I no longer live in my home countries for four consecutive years...
View ArticleLearning German through Storytelling: Review of Genowrin for Kindle
For me, it's easy to get excited about the idea of learning a new language when I think about the stories associated with a country. I used to imagine England as this place where crime mysteries...
View ArticleSep 12, How do you seem more confidant to others?
When you speak English you might be scared or self conscious but there are many things you can do to appear more confidant than you really are. Do you
View ArticleLearn English With Photos 6 - Shops and Shopping
In this week's lesson we look at vocabulary relating to shops and shopping. You can download a PDF with the transcript and vocabulary for this lesson here, and you can find all ten videos in this...
View ArticleBack to school tricks and tips: slang and txt speak
Next in our Back to school tricks and tips series. These posts are for our English language learners and are meant to be entertaining as well as helpful. Let me know what you think, or share your...
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Back to school tricks and tips: slang and txt speak
Next in our Back to school tricks and tips series. These posts are for our English language learners and are meant to be entertaining as well as helpful. Let me know what you think, or share your...
View ArticleIvan Sag 1949-2013
My friend and Stanford colleague Ivan Sag died on Tuesday, after three years of enduring cancer, with uncommon grace. Back in April, Stanford hosted a workshop on Structure and Evidence in Linguistics...
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Learn Arabic Vocabulary on iPhone and Android with the Word Bucket App
Android and iPhone App for Learning Arabic Vocabulary Word Bucket is an app for both iPhone and Android that allows Arabic learners to easily find, save and learn new vocabulary. It's quite handy on...
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Learn about the Japanese Language on Wikipedia
Discover the Japanese Language If you're learning Japanese you may very well want to get an overview of the language, some of its unique features, geographical information about native speakers as...
View ArticleThree Little Words
Sit. Stay. Love. Pet adoptions and supply drives organized by the retail chain Anthropologie. Sleep Play Love, a consignment store for children’s apparel and gear, getting read to open in Oakland’s...
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Read with your children, not to them
Reading with your child is the key to building a child’s literacy skills. Emergent literacy begins at birth and continues through preschool and kindergarten. Experts encourage parents to get children...
View ArticleTHE CATCHER AND THE ABYSS.
Reed Johnson has a New Yorker blog post about two Russian translations of The Catcher in the Rye, the classic one by Rita Rait-Kovaleva, called Над пропастью во ржи [Over the abyss in the rye], and...
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Destroyer Announces Spanish Language EP - Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork MediaDestroyer Announces Spanish Language EPPitchfork MediaDan Bejar's band Destroyer has announced a new EP, Five Spanish Songs, to be released November 29 through Merge. UPDATE: Dead Oceans...
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Boost Language Skills and Travel Like a Local by Reading Foreign News -...
Boost Language Skills and Travel Like a Local by Reading Foreign NewsLifehackerOf course, you can also watch foreign news and consume other media (stage 3 of one method of learning a new language)....
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Language and Memory Redux
One week only: If you did not do our Language and Memory task when it was running earlier this year, now is your chance. We just re-launched it to collect some additional data. I expect we'll have...
View ArticleComputational linguistics and literary scholarship
Email from Dan Garrette: I am a Computer Science PhD student at UT-Austin working with Jason Baldridge, but I've recently been collaborating with my colleague Hannah Alpert-Abrams in the Comparative...
View ArticleThe English language's Twitter feed
I have a piece on Fresh Air today, behind the curve as usual, on the discussion that followed the Oxford Dictionary Online's inclusion of twerk, which Ben Zimmer covered in a post a couple of weeks ago...
View ArticleSep 12, Listening Skills
I am aware that you already posted about this subject, anyway I would like to get a piece of advice about how to improve my listening, because there is
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