Here’s a quick cheat sheet of 3 tips on some of the most important things to bear in mind to learn any new language: Input We learn languages from input. This is what we read and what we hear. We practice and process what we learned through output. This is what we write and what… Read More 3 Tips to Learn Any Language
Learn Advanced Spanish: Online Spanish Immersion Check out these places to experience Spanish language immersion online. Read and listen, understand and learn. It is so exciting to be learning languages in this time. Never before in history has language and culture been so available. Shop, cook, exercise and dance and learn Spanish at the same… Read More Learn Advanced Spanish: Online Spanish Immersion
Welcome to The Five-week Linguist Show. If you want to learn a language or teach a language, you’ve come to the right place. Join Janina each week for tips, resources, and advice to make engaging language learning happen anytime, anywhere. (0:27) – Fun ways to get the students to talk (1:18) – First activity, The… Read More 10 Speaking Activities: Get Them Talking
Improv and Languages: Learn Greetings Welcome to The Five-week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about five activities to practice meeting and greeting in other languages. (1:04) – All about Alliteration. (1:18) – Whatever your name is, you have to introduce yourself with the adjective of the same letter. (01:26)- It involves introducing each… Read More Improv and Languages: Learn Greetings
Italki: 3 Ways to Get Started Welcome to The Five-Week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about three ways to get talking on Italki. (0:54) – There’s a range of language teachers from all over the world giving lessons on Italki. And there are native speakers or very proficient non-native speakers, professional language teachers.… Read More Italki: 3 Ways to Get Started
Language Teaching Activities Welcome to The Five-week Linguist Show. We’re going to talk about some language teaching activities inspired by travel. (0:54) Activities from travel for classes, postcards. (1:19) Kids can really easily make their own postcards. (1:50) Write everyone’s names on small slips of paper. I write places from all over the world. (1:56)… Read More Language Teaching Activities
Hollywood has a lot to offer language classes. Here are some ways to use it in your language classes. Stories Many actors love telling stories. Combine this inclination with wanting (and often needing) to make opportunities for their own work as actors. Remember when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote Good Will Hunting? They… Read More Hollywood in Your Language Class
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