Second Language Acquisition Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language, or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. We’re wrapping up five weeks… Read More 5-week crash course for teachers: second language acquisition
Here are some fun ways to get your students talking in any world language class. Hot Seat: Break up students into groups. They devise questions on the topic of your choice. They take turns sending members to the hot seat to answer their questions. Fun- LOTS of talking… Partner Pictionary: One talks, the other draws… Read More Get Them Talking: 10 Activities for ANY World Language Class
Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources, and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. This week, I wanted to talk about starting… Read More 5-week crash course for language teachers: anxiety
I absolutely love to use drama in my classroom. Drama is a huge passion of mine. I have one of my BA in Theatre Arts and have worked as an actress. Throughout my career teaching languages, I absolutely love to incorporate so many things that I have done and do as an actress and… Read More 5 Improv Activities for Language Class
I have published this content multiple times over many years. I wish I knew this when I was a beginning language teacher. This works in any language, too! Use Spanish days, months and the weather as a part of your daily routine in class. I came to public school teaching after working as a language… Read More Spanish Days, Months & Weather: Daily Routines
Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources, and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Over these five weeks, we’ve been talking a… Read More 5-week crash course for language teachers: routines and procedures
Travel Italian: 5-week Crash Course Learn travel Italian with this fast 5-week course. Quick review: this is a hugely important factor in learning a language, time. To learn basic Italian (it’s really closely related to English) you can invest between 750 and 1,000 hours of focused, immersive, input and practice, and hit a very basic… Read More Travel Italian: 5-week Course
Harry Wong’s advice in the language classroom. Welcome to the 5-week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language or you teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources, and advice for making engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. Welcome to the 5-week Linguist Show. Over… Read More 5-week Crash Course for Language Teachers: Harry Wong
Learn Italian: 5-week Crash Course Learn basic Italian with this fast 5-week course. How can I learn basic Italian? This is a hugely important factor in learning a language, time. To learn basic Italian (it’s really closely related to English) you can invest between 750 and 1,000 hours of focused, immersive, input and practice, and… Read More Learn Italian: 5-week Crash Course