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
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
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
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
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?”
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
As I mentioned a while ago, one of the assignments in the current Add1Challenge (#A1C33) we were asked to write down or make a reminder in some way for why we wanted to learn this language. This is a really good idea for all language learners – even if we
I happened across a great site yesterday – news articles with accompanying (slow) audios! They exist in many languages – Linguistica 360 Inc. publishes them in French, Spanish, German and Italian, but I also found similar sites in Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese and others. To date I have only looked at
Yesterday was the final opportunity for those of us in the Add 1 Challenge 33 (A1C33) to post our final videos demonstrating us having a 15 minute conversation with a native speaker. Of course, the obligatory tech glitches caused a one hour delay. Fortunately my conversation partner was not short
How to most efficiently learn new vocabulary? This is the big question, especially for those of us with a long list of languages we want to learn. And seriously the most boring for me! But what to do? Without memorising the words, it is impossible to learn the language… and
