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Author Archives: Josh
Harry Potter eBooks and Amazon.com’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Based on what I’ve seen at the HTLAL forums, the Harry Potter books are often some of the first books that people will tackle in their target language, as they’re fun books that lots of learners have already read in English. … Continue reading
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Language Immersion add-on for Google Chrome
If you use Google Chrome, there’s a nifty little add-on you might want to check out, called Language Immersion for Chrome. It’s built using Google’s automatic translation services, so you can select from 64 different languages. It also allows you … Continue reading
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Exporting terms / sentences from Learning with Texts to Anki
I’ve been continuing to play around with Learning with Texts, and I quite like it. If you have web hosting available to you, I definitely recommend you check it out. I was just perusing the website for LWT, and saw … Continue reading
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Back to this craziness (and learning with texts)
So, I’ve been a blogger-in-missing for nearly half a year now. Considering my last, depressing post in August, I imagine some readers thought I just gave up altogether. I’ve actually received some emails from random readers, asking if all is … Continue reading
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Have I learned anything?
I recently had a rather frustrating experience: In the middle of July, I was in Florida with a couple of people to see the last shuttle launch. While we were in Florida, we also visited Universal Studies for two days. … Continue reading
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German modal particles – Was soll denn das?
Today we have a guest post from Ed Langley. Languages contain many nuances which can be misunderstood or overlooked by the non-native language student. Without the ability to comprehend these nuances, it can be very difficult to know how to … Continue reading
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Lend me your ears (and clicks, if you want)
It’s already that time of the year again: Lexiophiles is running their annual competition, the Top 100 Language Lovers 2011 contest. Nominations are already over, and Language Geek is in the running again. If you like my blog, I’d certainly appreciate your … Continue reading
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Back to it
I had good intentions. I was on a roll with my languages; I was starting the Read More or Die challenge; I was making progress on many fronts! And then I sort of stopped. It seems to happen to the … Continue reading
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Read more or die challenge
If you’ve taken a look at my Twitter account, you might have noticed my tweets to @TadokuBot, which look something like this: @TadokuBot 15 #book #de. The tweets are my updates for the Read More or Die challenge. It’s a fairly … Continue reading
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Tweet, tweet from a Language Geek
My sincerest apologies for the post title, I couldn’t help myself. (It does rhyme, though – sort of!) I’ve set up a Twitter account to share bite-size bits about languages and language learning, as well as communicate with other language … Continue reading
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