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Author Archives: Josh
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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The Linguist Blogger has a very interesting podcast up in which he and a friend discuss language learning in general, and fluency specifically. Regarding fluency, I especially appreciated how it was stressed that when you say you speak a language, it … Continue reading
Assimil’s second, active wave
I posted the instructions found at the beginning of the Assimil Dutch course some time ago. I’ve found that the Assimil instructions are often rather lacking, and plenty of people post on forums asking: how exactly am I supposed to … Continue reading
Generating lists of words from reading
Sometimes, I’ll do intensive reading on the computer, so as to make it a bit quicker – I have quick access to my software dictionaries, grammar websites, and the like. When doing this in the past, I’ve generally copied and … Continue reading
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Puttering along
Back in July, I wrote: I’ve been trying to decide on how I want to rearrange my language learning schedule. While I’m making progress, certainly, I’m not entirely happy with my haphazard way of hopping from one language to another. … Continue reading
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