Games help you ‘learn and play’ from the BBC - A Sim could help you dip a toe in a foreign tongue ‘God games’ in which players must control virtual people and societies could be educational, says research. A US researcher has suggested that games such as The Sims could be a good way to […]
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Play to learn
Electronic Arts has announced that its casual game portal subsidiary Pogo is moving rapidly to expand across Europe, with a new German language service, new reward services for UK users, and a French language version expected in the coming months.
As of today, European casual gamers can log on to Pogo to play the […]
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Street learning
Learning from foreigners on the streets Source: Tuoi Tre-VietNamNet Bridge – Rather than restrict themselves to learning foreign languages at language centres, many young people choose a more “amateur” form of training: learn from foreigners at roadside teashops, on the streets and tours. Improving English on the streets “I love traveling very much, so […]
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Verbs
Real action in understanding language by Dawn Wiseman from Universite Concorde Journal-De Almeida’s Psycholinguistic and Cognition Lab focuses largely on understanding how information gleaned from verbs, and verbs in sentences, structures our overall comprehension of meaning.
“Verbs are the key elements in sentences,” he explained. “They tell us who did what to whom.”
De Almeida and his […]
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Love and languages
This may see rather cliché, but I have never, meet someone in a relationship with someone who did not start picking up the language though osmosis. My girlfriend could barely speak English when I met her. After two years in our relationship she teaches English and my Polish is pretty good. It is […]
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Computer game to learn a language
Although not the most straightforward way of learning, I pay chess and computer games on foreign servers. For me example, I play chess on the Polish server “Kurnik” . It is a large game international server but most of the chatting is in Polish and I choose the Polish interface […]
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Learn abstract words
Language is first and foremost an abstraction. Why did humans invent language? To convey things that could not be shown to others concretely. Many learning aids and traditional method lessons are ineffective because they emphasis concrete things during the first year of learning. That is nouns about such as “dog”, “cat”, “grandfather”, “Fireman”, […]
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Music and language learning
Music is the key to learning English as a second language from Asbury Park Press- Rose Powers, 44, of Metechun teaches English and uses creative ways to make learning a language easy and fun. Powers uses Pod-Casts on a video I-Pod in addition to books and worksheets. She also incorporates music […]
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Learn a trick or how to learn a language with a partner
One extension of the idea described as the “hat trick” is placing a hat or basket near the entrance of a particular room of your house. Every time you walk past this basket you have to pull out a word and test yourself. If […]
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Hat trick for learning
How do you really learn words in a foreign language? If want to learn vocabulary with a friend or even alone a very good technique is what I call the ‘hat trick’. Everyday fill a hat with the words you learned that day. On each mini flashcard write the vocabulary word or […]
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