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#LanguageJam February 2019 - Macedonian

Macedonian – #LangJam Feb 2019

February 14, 2019 Cate Deans LanguageJam

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

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Recreational Learning Through Television

December 7, 2018 Cate Deans Listening

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

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“Do You Speak French?” The Art of Talking about Languages

November 8, 2018 Cate Deans Talking About Language Learning

“Do you Speak French?” Can someone please help me to answer this question? Hello. My name is Cate, and I’m a language nerd. Have you ever been asked something like “Do you speak French?“, and been overcome with an overwhelming desire to run really fast in the opposite direction? Have

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21 Day Vocab Challenge – Review

November 2, 2018 Cate Deans Challenges

Hey y’all 🙂 (Putting on my Southern twang there 🙂 )… just thought I had better let you know how the 21 Day Vocab Challenge went, and bring you all up to date with it. So the commitment was only five minutes a day – Did I manage to stick to

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Are You Up For A Challenge? LanguageJam Weekend Challenge

October 19, 2018 Cate Deans Challenges

Oops! It’s a bit unplanned, but I saw something advertised I just could not pass over… the opportunity to study one language for one weekend… and I don’t even get to choose the language! Language Jam is a weekend long challenge organised by Language and Travel Blogger Lingudendron. It was

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21 Day Vocabulary Challenge

Why You Should Keep Changing It Up – 21 Day Vocab Challenge

October 12, 2018 Cate Deans Challenges

Do you find yourself getting into a rut with your language learning? Does your “get up and go” seem to… well… get up and go? I have been at that point for the past three months with French. I completed the 33rd Add 1 Challenge, all fired up ready to

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Can You Learn Two Or More Languages At The Same Time?

October 6, 2018 Cate Deans Talking About Language Learning

It is often asked “can you learn two languages at the same time?” The answer seems to be yes… and no. There are many studies of children raised in bilingual homes that demonstrate the ability to learn two languages at the same time, but it is also noted that many

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Learning Vocab Through Children’s Songs

September 15, 2018 Cate Deans Vocabulary

Have you ever thought “I know – I’ll go and listen to some children’s songs and learn the language through them!”… then you go and listen to them and are absolutely astounded at how fast they sound, and how much you DON’T know, and then feel all despondent because you

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We Don’t Have Them Here! Language Gaffs and Cross Cultural Chaos

September 1, 2018 Cate Deans Talking About Language Learning

It was my first day in England, and I was looking to see if I could buy a high necked long sleeved t-shirt that in Australia we call a “skivvy”. When the (middle aged) shop assistant approached and asked if she could help, I asked if they had “any skivvies?”

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Learn French Pronunciation with Earworms

August 17, 2018 Cate Deans French, Product Reviews

I wanted to see if there was an audio based language learning tool that might help me learn French pronunciation. Earworms Musical Brain Trainers are designed to teach spoken French with music. Knowing that when I get a song stuck in my head it guarantees I learn the lyrics, I

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