Here is a quick tip for learning a language. This language learning technique is simple. When you do not know a word in your target language substitute an English word. Especially it it’s a higher-level word. And one more thing, say it with the accent of your target language. Better yet change it a little [...]
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If you go to a foreign country to study a language there are many options. You can go to an official language school, you can go to a private language school, you can live with a host family or you can hire a private tutor. I have taught at and studied at [...]
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The Amish of America speak a hybrid dialect called Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German. It is a Germanic language with a good amount of English mixed in.
If you sit and listen to two Amish speaking, you may be surprised that what seems like every fifth or tenth or twentieth word is actually English. Occasionally you [...]
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Babies read lips
Babies read lips when speakers switch languages. Babies are made to learn languages, its almost, if not more important than eating. This is because this is that they will use this for the rest of their life as the brain will discard pathways it does not need, to finish the mold for the language [...]
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Kurgan
The Kurgan people are considered the Proto-Indo-European speaking people who lived in Southern Russian beginning in the 5th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC The Indo-European languages began to diverge and form precursors to Proto-Slavic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, etc.
Other theories put the origins of a unified linguistic Indo European culture about the 9th millennium BC [...]
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Are the Slavic and Baltic language groups related because of geographic proximity or did they share a common origin or root. This debate cannot concretely be solved by linguistic analysis because the Slavs and Baltic people live too close. Therefore, no matter which way you analysis from a language stand point, you will see words [...]
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French language in music
A new French language CD for Celine. Celine is great. Her songs are beautiful and rich in words that having meaning. I have written this before, but if you were to take songs you like and translate them into your own language, then learn the lyrics you will learn a lot of [...]
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Generative grammar is the idea that although our brains are limited; and our experience with a language is always limited, as we have not herd all possible combinations of native or secondary language. However, we have an innate ability to generate and understand an infinite number of combinations of sentences. This mean although I have [...]
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Watch films and movies to learn languages
How to make every film, even English language films a foreign language film in your target language.
Watching films for language gives you four basic options: First, subtitles, second, lecture, third, dubbing. And fourth you can watch the film in its original language.
For language learning the best is subtitles with [...]
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Koko the gorilla
Koko learned to sign about 1000 words and understand about 2,000 words. If Koko can, so can you. You do not have to be a genuis to learn a language, however, learning on will improve your intellect.
Koko used signs to convey thoughts. Although some ‘experts’ refute the level of understanding she had with [...]
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