Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsWell here’s the new look of The Everyday Language Learner. I would love to hear your thoughts. I have tried to get everything figured out, but I realize there will probably be a few glitches. If you come across any, please drop me an email or leave a comment so I can get it fixed….
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Coming Changes
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsMerhaba from Turkey! I just wanted to check in and let everyone know that I am planning a relaunch of the site early next week. If I can get past the technical hurdles of migrating from Blogger to WordPress, I hope to have the new site up and running by Tuesday or Wednesday. I am…
Introducing The Ten Week Journey
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI want to introduce you to an exciting new opportunity for those of you who have been contemplating learning a new language. It is called The Everyday Language Learner Ten Week Journey and it has been created to help you get started on the new language that you have always dreamed of learning. The ten…
Best Language Learning Resources: LingQ
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics For the third installment of the Best Language Learning Resources series we will look at LingQ. I found LingQ nearly two years ago and explored it a bit as a resource for Turkish friends here in Istanbul to use for learning English. Because Turkish is not yet a language on LingQ, I haven’t used…
Best Language Learning Resources: Livemocha
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Part Two in the Best Language Learning Resources series brings us to Livemocha, a great resource that I came across and began to use just last year for both Turkish and Spanish. Livemocha is a great overall program and it is where I often send anyone who is just getting started. I sometimes describe…
Tips and Ideas: Number Dictation
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Numbers are one of the most rule bound and regular components of any language. Every language has a clear and repeating system for numbers and outside of those pesky teens in languages like English and Spanish, this system never varies. So numbers are really easy to learn right. Yes, they are easy to learn…
Best Language Learning Resources: RhinoSpike
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics For the first in the series of Best Language Learning Resources, I bring you RhinoSpike! I emailed a number of different sites and will be presenting them in the order that they responded. Thomas Hjelm, a co-founder over at RhinoSpike, was gracious enough to respond almost immediately. I am not entirely sure where the…
The Marathon Revolution
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics This post is about change. In in 1970s running a marathon was largely the domain of young, competitive men. Like the guy in the picture. Individuals ran – alone. Short shorts ruled. As did the seriousness of the sport. It was not the sport for the common man – and certainly not for the…
The Online Resource Cruise
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Over the next month or two, I would like to take a cruise past all the online resources that I have found to be useful for the everyday language learner. I will give a short summary of each and a few reasons why I think they could be a good resource for learning another…
Everyday Moves
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsWhat do you think of the new look? I have now officially moved The Everyday Language Learner over to WordPress from Blogger. Blogger was great, but in light of wanting to be more effective in every area of my coaching and writing, the switch was perhaps too long in coming. I will ask that you…
Language Learning Tip: Strategic Shopping
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics I am not a fan of shopping just to shop. I am not actually a fan of shopping at all. But if I must shop, I do figure that I might as well use it to my language learning advantage. Strategic shopping is one way to do this. It is just one way to…
