Welcome to the five-week linguist show. We are going to talk about Comparison.

(0:31) – The five standards for learning and teaching languages.

(1:09) – Comparisons develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence.

(1:17) – In language comparison.

(1:39) – Learning other languages is an acute awareness of our own language.

(4:31) – Awareness of language gives us the tools to learn and apply the practical parts whether we get any communicative function or not.

 Standard interculturality.

(5:37) – Learning patterns can really help you ladder and learn vocabulary really quickly. 

(6:12) – Learning about the products, the product practices, and perspectives through language. 

(9:13) – Making comparisons between this target language and your own language to make sense of both.

(10:41) – Find something of interest. 

(10:55) – Use reading, audio visual content, and podcasts to learn.

(11:16) – Dig deep into the language and really examine and develop talking about that in the target language.

For more resources on learning and teaching languages, to get on our mailing list, or to get the workbook for this course, be sure to visit RealLifeLanguage.com/reallifelanguageblog. If you are listening to this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a rating.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS