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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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The disease of monolingualism
I clicked over to this website, EuroComRom, from a HTLAL thread. The website is about multilingualism in Europe and a strategy for achieving it, but frankly, that’s not what this rather short post is about. What immediately caught my eye … Continue reading
WordPress Encoding Woes
WordPress is starting to really, really annoy me with its text encoding quirks. I’m not sure why, but I’ll post something that has foreign characters in it, and more or less on its own, the foreign text – whether it … Continue reading
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Grimm Grammar for German
The Texas Language Technology Center of the University of Texas has a very nice online grammar of German, Grimm Grammar. A snippet from their about page: Welcome to Grimm Grammar, an irreverent revival and shameless exploitation of 19th-century Grimm Fairy … Continue reading
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