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Can you learn a language without living in that country
Yes you do not need immersion to learn a language.  Or at least you can create your own immersion.

Listen to the radio or Internet radio for hours a day in your target language.
Watch movies, Youtube and films in the language you want to learn.
Read books or [...]

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Make a language progress graph
One the greatest personal goals I achieved was: when I was in school I used to lift weights, I was the skinniest kid growing up.  With a goal in mind, I went from 150 lb to 225 lbs of muscle. I did this using a graph on the wall and focused [...]

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translate tool firefox
The translate tool I use in firefox is ‘gtranslate’. It uses google’s translate page to translate text.  It works fine with an auto detect button for the language. However, I have always been luke warm about translate tools. The translations are always very funny and if you know even an intermediate level of [...]

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Foreign language videos
I think reading a book is a better way to learn a language then watching foreign language videos, because learning a language from a book is very focused and easy on the eyes. However, watching foreign language videos is still not bad.
There are many foreign language videos on the internet from almost any [...]

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Writing for the web
My language test
I recently ran a test using a optimizer tool.  It was a  A / B test that compared two different versions of my home page. 50% of the time people would look at one version and 50% the users would see another version. This morning, I completed it.  With a [...]

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Language of Russian Politics
The Russian government always uses very strong words when it comes to international politics. Strong, than perhaps any other country.  It always talks tough. But in reality they are more rational and do not follow through with the full sound of their threats. It is just the way they talk.  If you [...]

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Hardest thing in language learning
Beyond a doubt the hardest thing about learning a language is over coming the belief that you are not good with languages, self doubt and laziness.  I guess this would all come under the category of motivation.  I think learning a language is about how motivated you are. I taught countless [...]

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How your baby starts to develop language in the first three months of life. How your baby develops listening and speaking skills. What can you do to help your baby’s language development.

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Can your baby learn a language by music or sound or singing? I think your baby will respond most to singing a language to him or her.

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How to learn grammar in a foreign language
There are two ways to learn grammar as an adult foreign language learner, abstraction or memorization.
Method 1, learning grammar in a foreign language by abstraction
Adults learn grammar differently than children, we can use abstract thinking to understand patterns. Therefore, in simple grammatical languages like English and Spanish, learning [...]

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