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Amelia on June 25 2010 2

Five Myths about Immersion that Can Ruin Your Language Holiday

What learning environment could be better than immersion? You’re surrounded by native speakers and have virtually unlimited access to listening and reading material—how could you not learn? Right?
Yet we’ve all heard about or even met people who’ve lived in another country for years and still

Amelia on June 10 2010 0

Literacy by Brute Force: How I Really Learn Alphabets

Plenty of tricks exist for learning new alphabets: flashcards, visual and sound association, transliteration, drawing letters, and so on.
These can all work great, but I confess my method of learning new letters is largely brute force. It’s not a barrel of laughs, but it works for me. I thought I’d share it because it [...]

Amelia on April 07 2010 0

Authentic Material: Speed up Your Learning Speed and Boost Your Motivation

In language teacher lingo “authentic material” is any material made for native speakers. It might be a news broadcast, a magazine, an ad flier, a song or anything else not simplified for learners.
While phrasebooks, dictionaries, grammar exercise books, and the like are important, it’s equally important to supplement

Amelia on March 18 2010 0

Three Things You Need to Learn a Language Fast

Let’s face it, most us interested in learning another language want to learn a language fast. As much fun as the learning process can be, for most folks the final goal is to actually know and be able to use the language.
Despite what the results of slow-moving high school and college language classes might [...]

Amelia on November 15 2009 0

Learn a Language Fast with Audio Courses

One of the biggest problems that hold many people back from being able to learn a language fast is lack of organization.
Sure, some people may say it’s because they don’t have time to study, but what that usually means is that they haven’t organized their learning plan well enough to take advantage of the [...]

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