New Spanish Teacher: First-year Teacher Survival New Spanish teacher? Every Spanish teacher, native or not, has walked in your shoes. I did back in the 90s. Here are some tips and resources to make your life easier as a new Spanish teacher. I want to share how to work in the 5Cs and not just… Read More Spanish Teacher: First-year Survival
Learn Italian Online: The 200-hour Challenge Two hundred hours is a perfect amount of time to invest in upping your skills in a language. Building language proficiency in a foreign language requires an investment of time engaged in understanding and using new words and phrases. While we can track and note our progress and improvements… Read More Learn Italian Online: The 200-hour Challenge
Learn French for beginners Do you want to learn French fast? Check out these phrases all themed around language for travel- the perfect context to start learning a language. When you learn a new language for travel, you learn all the vocabulary and grammar you need in context. Learn enough words and phrases, and they… Read More Learn French for Beginners
Italian Phrases for Travel Learn Italian fast with phrases for travel. In this guide you will find useful words and phrases in Italian and English, along with audio recorded by native speakers. This guide can be read on a desktop computer, tablet or smartphone. This guide was inspired by the following question: what language is… Read More Italian Phrases for Travel: FREE Italian for Travel and Beginners Book
Learn “thank you” in Italian, and many more useful expressions to get started in Italian. Excuse me. Pardon. Thank you. Grazie. You’re welcome. Benvenuto. One more, please. Un altro, per favore. Some Italian for meeting and greeting: My name is______________. Mi chiamo… How are you? Come sta? Good. Bene. So- so. Così così. Are you… Read More Thank you in Italian
I once heard someone say that you can tell the difference between a native speaker and a very advanced language learner by their prepositions, and I think it’s true. I think it’s one of those things that comes last in a language because they’re so often attached to phrasal verbs. For example, in French, we… Read More Prepositions: Teaching in a foreign language
I feel really strongly about errors as a language teacher. It’s so interesting, because I think in this profession, we want to be accurate, effective and correct in our communication. And of course, we want that for our students. The instinct sometimes can be to correct everything that’s wrong. We think if we correct an… Read More A Fun Way to Correct Errors for EFL, ELT, Spanish, French, German & Italian Classes
Language Instruction: Checklist for a Proficiency-oriented Classroom Did you know that less than 1 percent of Americans are proficient in a language that they studied at school, according The Atlantic? In 2016, there were 110 million users on Duolingo, a top online language platform. People want to learn new languages. There are now more… Read More Language Instruction: Checklist for a Proficiency-oriented Classroom
Learn Japanese through survival language Learn Japanese through Survival Language Survival language is one of the fastest ways to learn Japanese. Are you familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Basically, we need to get our survival needs met first before we get into anything else. Where you are traveling to Japan any time soon, or… Read More Learn Japanese through Survival