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
Immersive Vocab Quizzes for Teaching a Language to Novice Students Immersive vocab assessments are the perfect way to begin teaching a language to novice students. They learn how to listen, speak, read, and then finally write-the skill we master last. Select six to eight words from the group of words you’d like to teach. Get… Read More Teaching a language: Immersive Vocabulary Quizzes
Learn Korean now with this 5-week crash course. Check out words and phrases to get speaking Korean FAST: My name is______________.제 이름은 ____입니다. je ireumeun ____ imnida How are you? 어떻게 지내세요? eoteoke jineseyo Good.좋아요. Joayo So- so.그저 그래요. geujeo geuraeyo Are you all right?괜찮아요? gwaenchanayo Where are you from?어느 나라에서 왔어요? eoneu nara-eseo… Read More Learn Korean Now
Netflix is an amazing resource for learning and teaching languages. This post contains affiliate links Binge watching is one of my very favorite ways to learn languages. It takes different amounts of time to learn different categories of languages. As English speakers, the languages that take us the least amount of time to become functionally… Read More Netflix: Learn Languages through Binge Watching
Speaking fluently: how long does it take? I have been teaching and learning languages for a LONG time. I double majored in college in Foreign Languages and Theater Arts, and then earned an MA in the Teaching of Languages. I have taught in academic institutions for nearly three decades ranging from primary level language immersion… Read More Speaking fluently: How long does it take?