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Bilingual education in America
The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools.  The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market.  These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public schools. […]

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Language conversation lessons
As a language teacher the hardest thing for me is to get students talking. Some students talk all the time. Others will not open up and you have to really work to get them speaking beyond one word answers. I think its the act of speaking and using the lagnuage […]

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Learn a language by selling in a market
I am an American living in Poland.   And for fun sometimes I go to Ukraine and buy things cheap and sell them in the Polish open air market.  I make some money but more important selling things in a stand all day I learn a lot of Polish.  […]

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Understanding a foreign language
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If you have never understood a foreign language to the point of comprehension, what it feels like before you reach fluency is - he is saying ’something about this’ or ’something about that’.  It does not feel like our beloved English, but it does not feel all bad either. You […]

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Film titles in foreign language movies
Living in another country has made me aware a small annoyance.   I noticed when I go to rent a DVD at the local video store, I often give people the English Title translated into Polish for example (I live in Krakow).   The movie in English will be something like “What […]

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