Wow! It’s May, and time to make language learning goals and plans for a new month. As expected, my university course in Biblical Hebrew took up almost all my time. This is what I got up to… April In Review BIBLICAL HEBREW Vocab Memrise course, 4 x 30 mins/week Done
What is NOT the best way to learn Biblical Hebrew from scratch? (For me at least!) Studying grammar! If my brain is a sponge, it has been so full that it has been leaking after just five weeks of learning! All the new information has just run through and out
2019 is 1/4 completed, and my Language Learning Goals for the year continue to change. Despite winding things back for March, I made a radical decision to enrol in University to study Biblical Hebrew… and wasn’t THAT a fun choice! So this is what March Language Learning looked like… March
We have become very accustomed to information being available online for free. Certainly there is a plethora of free language learning resources on every platform. But is “Free” worth using? Or is it a case of “You get what you pay for”? When I am considering what to use, I
It can be difficult to communicate clearly when we are learning a new language. Some of us are shy, or maybe just not confident with talking to people when we only know a little vocabulary, but we still need to know how to get our point across and let others
Here we go! The year is already 1/6 through, and my language learning goals are already going by the wayside! I seem to say this every month, but you know what… I don’t get too concerned about it. I feel it is important to keep making goals, but the world
Last weekend I got my first opportunity to learn Macedonian during the #LangJam Challenge. Cyrillic Script The Macedonian alphabet is quite different to English. For a start, the Macedonian language uses a Cyrillic script, so I had a week before the challenge to learn that. This image shows the vowels
Time to play with a new language over a weekend with #LanguageJam! This time I drew Macedonian – which has a Cyrillic script, a messy political situation, and not many resources “because it’s really just a dialect of Bulgarian”. Well, so the Bulgarians say! Recognition of the Macedonian Language I
Hallo Allemaal! Hoe gaat het in dit nieuwe jaar with your language learning goals? It’s 2019… wow! I am absolutely not sure where 2018 went to, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I actually understand a bit of French now, I would be sure I had slept through
I am not a big watcher of television. In fact, for the past ten years I haven’t even had a television connected to an antenna in the house. However, I do watch media entertainment. My main source has been through YouTube, and I have fairly narrow interest areas. Mostly I
