Category Archives: Assessment

Posts about assessing the language learning journey.

How Are You Doing?

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics If you have ever traveled to a new country, you know the strange feeling of getting on a bus and finding you have little but a foggy notion of where you are going or how long it will take to arrive. Your bus pulls from the station and turns right. Why right you have…

The Six Pillars of Successful Language Learning

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics If you are new to The Everyday Language Learner, I want to welcome you.  Take a look around, enjoy today’s post and be sure to subscribe to get each weekly article, my monthly newsletter and to recieve my 8 Ideas for Maximizing Your Language Learning article.  (Subscribe Today) Today I took some time to reflect…

10 Essential Tools For Everyday Language Learners

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics My son and daughter have learned to speak Turkish without ever thinking about the learning process and without ever consulting a dictionary, reviewing a flashcard or reading this blog. And while it hurts my pride to think that my five and seven year olds are not avid readers of  The Everyday Language Learner, their…

Language Learning Tip: Obtaining Native Speaker Feedback

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Over the last few months I have been working to diligently add new vocabulary to my personal lexicon of Turkish words. I’ve found these new words in the John Grishom novel I have been reading, in daily conversations with friends and from the Turkish movies I watch each week and from Turkish word lists….

2000 Turkish Words by 2012

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics David Mansaray’s recent post about the power of project based learning coupled with my own post about Fartlek language learning have challenged me to think about what I can and need to do to continue to move forward as a Turkish speaker. While I write regularly about language learning, about sustaining motivation and about…

The Ten Week Journey

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics I want to use today’s post to introduce The Ten Week Journey. You may have heard it mentioned or seen the little ad square over on the right, and some of you (actually over 100 900 of you now) have been on The Ten Week Journey yourself.   I also want to ask for a little…

The Guide to Self-Assessment

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics A few months ago, I sent a copy of my ebook, The Everyday Language Learner’s Guide to Getting Started to a number of friends to look over.  It was my first foray into writing something more robust that would empower everyday, normal people to be self-directed, independent language learners. I am thankful to have…

Am I Fluent in Turkish? Who cares!

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Fluency.  It is a concept that is difficult to wrap our heads around and one that is almost impossible to quantify. Because of this, I think the idea of fluency is not worth a whole lot for language learners.  It’s neat to say that I am fluent in Turkish or Spanish and it feels…

The Importance of Journaling: Yuki’s Story

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