My 5-week crash course to learn any language. Implement a tip every day to learn any language. Day One: Get Inspired. There are some amazing people who have managed to learn languages on their own by defying all the rules they were taught in school. Check out Benny Lewis’ Fluent in Three Months for great… Read More Learn ANY Language
Sub Plans for Language Teachers Welcome to The Five-week Linguist Show. We’re going to talk about writing sub plans when you’re a language teacher. (1:07) If you’re really lucky, you would get a teacher who speaks the language. (1:28) It’s really tough to write sub plans when you’re a language teacher because you want them… Read More Sub Plans for Language Teachers
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