How to talk about the Coronavirus in Spanish In 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down. Social distancing, remote work, and face masks are some of the things we’ve gotten used to by now, and we’ll probably experience the “new normal” for a while longer. With only a simple internet search, it’s… Read More How to talk about the Coronavirus in Spanish
Hispanic Heritage Month Activities I love Hispanic Heritage Month, and love the activities we can do in our Spanish classes dedicated to it. It is a great opportunity to celebrate the fascinating, amazing cultures that speak Spanish. I also love that it is unique, it even gets a special month designation to honor the independence… Read More Hispanic Heritage Month Activities
Italian Cuisine is popular and well known. If you want to prepare Authentic Italian food, look at these 10 recipe sites and discover real Italian cooking. Genius Kitchen This site teaches about Italian cousine, food pairing and many old recipes that you want to learn. All in one place. Italianfoodforever The essence of Italian cooking… Read More Italian Cuisine: 10 recipe sites for Authentic Italian food
Travel French: Chunks and Tasks I love language for travel. This is in part because I love to travel. The other part of me loves this as a teacher and lifelong learner of languages. All of the language is served in chunks – meaningful words and phrases. These chunks we use for travel gets us communicating… Read More Travel French: Chunks and Tasks
It is exciting to learn your first words in a new language. Learn Italian Basics Now: Chunks and Phrases for Travel and Beginners Do you want to learn Italian now? Travel- the perfect context to start learning a language. When you learn a new language for travel, you learn language in chunks. All the vocabulary… Read More Italian Basics: Learn your first words now
Learning to speak about yourself is a great way to build confidence in your skills. Use this activity to relearn French or use it with your students to help them relearn French. It is a great early school year review activity. When I was a young teacher, I had the privilege of attending a day… Read More How to relearn French: talk about yourself
Learn Spanish words daily with this free book for travel and beginners. Learning words and phrases to get communicating in many everyday situations is fast way to achieve confidence and fluency. Learning language for travel is the perfect context to start a new language, whether there is a pending trip soon or not. When we… Read More Daily Spanish Words: Free Travel and Beginners Book
Prefer to read about fun language learning? Fun Language Learning Welcome to The 5-Week Linguist Show. This week, I wanted to talk about fun in language classes. So I wanted to talk first of all, about the intense expectations that there are in a lot of language classes and about what reality looks like. So… Read More Fun Language Learning: Activities for Class
This post contains referral links. The more often I use Google apps for teaching and learning languages, the more I fall in love with them. I am so impressed that this suite of tools is completely free. And they are far stronger than so many of the things that I’ve actually seen that charge fees.… Read More Google: Teaching and Learning Languages