Teach to learn
A very effective method for learning foreign languages, particularly grammar is teaching it. Many classes I ask a student to prepare a lesson, and then teach it to the class on a grammar idea. I help out and make it low stress, but if you have to teach something you will know […]
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I am from New England but live in Krakow, Poland. Having both a programming, music and a language teaching background, and personal experience with brain regeneration, I have combined these passions by creating LearnFast language learning software and mp3 language learning programs in various languages. They are streamlined and effective and incorporate the latest […]
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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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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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How to learn a language
I have taught languages for several years. Initially my lessons were quite traditional. Grammar and typical structured lessons. Latter I developed many techniques. At this point even with beginners I have changed my method. It’s the way I learned English.
Reading, Writing and conversation.
Since most of the people I teach are adults […]
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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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A new way to learn grammar and Vocabulary
Learning languages does not need to be done with mnemonics or other special techniques, however, if you can apply some meaning or association to learning you will remember the vocabulary and grammar better. The is a basic learning technique that can be applied to any subject from foreign […]
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