If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. You’re minding your own business thinking in one language and someone comes up and says something to you in another language. Maybe you understand, but can’t find the words to reply or maybe you don’t understand a word even if they spoke your native language.
Understandable as [...]
Posts from the 'Speaking' Category
Amelia on April 18 2010 0
Compartmentalizing, Mixing Languages and Switching Languages: How Good Do You Have to Be?
Amelia on April 04 2010 1
Learning a Language in a Bilingual Culture: Getting the Locals to Talk with You
In some places, native speakers of the local language can be pretty insistent on “saving you the trouble” of struggling with their language. Even if you speak fairly well, any sign of hesitation or confusion and people switch to a language they feel would be less of a strain for both of you.
This is [...]
Amelia on November 20 2009 1
The Communicative Approach is Bad?
I recently came across and interesting article at Antimoon’s learn English online site discussing problems with the Communicative Approach to language learning. This approach encourages you to communicate very early in your learning, often from the first lesson.
Now, I do understand what the author is saying—you should get input and lots of it [...]
Amelia on October 01 2009 0
Vocabulary For Unexpected Childcare: “Will You Watch my Kid for a Minute?”
If you’re female and stay long-term in another country, I can almost guarantee you that at some point, someone is going to leave you in charge of one or more toddlers.
I once had the pleasure of spending several hours looking after four little ones all under age four when I spoke about ten words of [...]
Find out how you can learn almost any language to "advanced high" level in just six months even if you've struggled or "failed" before. Grab your copy of the 
