Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsIn 1988, as a fifteen year old in the midst of my freshman year in high school, I bought my first car. I paid exactly $200 for it – cash. It was a 1973 Ford Pinto, a stick shift with bucket seats and it was orange. It was not the kind of car you’d want…
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Princess Learn Chinese
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsOne thing I get really excited about is the creation of grassroots resources for language learners. I like the idea of learners taking things into their own hands and not waiting for some corporation or focus group to decide what we need. I created The Turkish Listening Library and Ingilizce Öğrenmek because I saw needs…
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Sage Advice from 20 Amazing People for the Beginning Language Learner
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsLast month I decided to take a risk. I decided to ask a variety of people to give me their best advice for beginning language learners. I wanted to ask the language learning community of course, but I wanted to get out too, to find the everyday learner’s among us who aren’t writing about the…
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French, Judo and Escaping the English Bubble
Written on September 26, 2011 by aarongmyers in EDLL Stories, Self Directed Learning, Tips and Ideas
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI really believe that we all have insight and inspiration to share with The Everyday Language Learner community and so it is exciting to be able to hear from readers on occasion and to be able to share their insights and experiences with all of you. We’ve heard from Gail and Clarence in earlier posts…
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Language Learning Mishaps 2
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsIn the last language learning mishap post I promised a story about a friend in Japan and my mishap with a taxi driver in Mexico, but I got a few responses from reader’s who shared their fun stories and thought I would share one of them instead. So please, by all means send me your…
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My Old Journals
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsToday I was cleaning out a cabinet and came across a number of old notebooks. They were from my first year or so in Turkey and held both my lesson plans for each lesson I had with Mehmet as well as hundreds of practice sentences, daily journals, dialogues I had created and other learning activities….
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Language Learning Mishaps
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI have decided to inject a bit of humor into the blog and so want to begin an “every once in a while” series of posts about our language learning mishaps. I’ll start with my own, but would really like to hear yours as well. And then I’d like to share them with everyone. So…
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I Am Not Dr. Arguelles
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics As a language coach and a learner myself, I am always on the look out for new ideas, new methods and new tips to both use myself and to pass on to you. That said, I’ve come across some pretty interesting ideas. Youtube is filled with videos about language learning, both how to videos…
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Introducing: The Everyday Language Learner
Written on February 25, 2011 by aarongmyers in EDLL Stories, Helping Out, Misc., Resources, Self Directed Learning, Teachers, Tips and Ideas
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsIf you are a first time visitor to The Everyday Language Learner, I want to welcome you and take a moment to give you a quick tour. That’s me in the picture with my wife and two kiddos. We’re everyday language learners as well and I have created The Everyday Language Learner blog as a site dedicated…
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Randy the Yearlyglot to Learn Turkish!
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI have been following Randy’s blog for a few months now and have enjoyed his everyman approach to learning language and his goal to learn a new language every year. There are a lot of language geeks out there – I being one – but too many have failed to connect with the everyday language…
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