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Category Archives: Language Learning
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
Posted in German, Language Learning, Languages
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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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How long will it take to become fluent?
I saw this question show up at the HTLAL forums a few days ago, and have seen it appear elsewhere in the language learning community time and time again. The question is, unfortunately, very hard to answer. First of all, … Continue reading
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The “Lyrics” tab on iPods
Geoff has a great post on making use of the Lyrics information, which iTunes lets you attach to any audio file in your library. Once you sync your iPod with your iTunes library, whatever you put in the Lyrics information … Continue reading
Returning from a hiatus
The past 3 or 4 weeks have been hectic for me, with “real life” (that is, not language stuff, alas) throwing some curve balls at me. I’d love to say that I’ve diligently carried on with my language learning endeavors, … Continue reading