Category Archives: Resources

Posts about resources for language learners.

Get on the Bus and Stay On

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics It’s not everyday that I get a postcard with a picture of an elephant trying to get on a double decker bus, but when I do, I like to share about it. The picture itself is so great – an apt metaphor for life as we know it. Much of what we do is…

The Everyday Language Learner Interview Series: Gaby Cortinas

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics I love being able to hear the stories of language learners throughout the world. The inspiration and new ideas I get whenever I am able to interact is always amazing. And over the last few months I have been hearing a bit of the story of one of the readers of the blog –…

Dubbed Movies: A Language Learner’s Best Friend

The Everyday Language Learner Interview Series: Alan Park of FluentU

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics After my recent post, 10 Free Resources for Learning Nearly Any Language, I got a lot of great feedback on other resources not on that list.  None was mentioned more than FluentU.  I’ve probably gotten ten emails from the EDLL community saying how great of a site that it is. I had to do…

10 Free Resources For Learning Nearly Any Language

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Fifteen years ago, if you wanted to learn another language you needed to either sign up for a course or fly to the country in which the language was spoken.  Resources were sparse and firmly in the hands of the teachers.  Access to books, to recordings, to courses, to anything that would be useful…

Language Learning Activity: Everyday Question Cards

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics If you’ve ever traveled or lived in the country of your target language, you’ve experienced the frustration of being asked a simple personal question and struggling to answer it effectively – especially at the beginning. Or perhaps as a new language learner, you get asked common questions and you are not even understanding the…

Activities and Strategies for Everyday Language Learners

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics If you are like me, you have at times on the language learning journey run into a wall. We feel like we are riding a one trick pony – doing the same thing day after day in hopes that it will lead to fluency. We’ve Rosetta Stoned until we are blue in the face….

Resurrecting My Spanish While Maintaining Turkish

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Trilingual.   Trilingual is an idea that I aspire to but cannot currently claim. But I’d like to work on it. In 1996 I graduated from college after taking a year of German.  I wasn’t into the idea of learning German at the time needing it only in order to graduate and so I…

Three Resources To Help You Stick With Your Plan In 2013

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Start 2013 with a bang plan. Hopefully 2013 has gotten off to a grand start for you.  But while starting with a bang is always fun, starting with a plan – one you can stick to – is always better. If you read through and watched the videos from my planning series a month…

22 Great Posts For Language Learners from 2012

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Last year I finished out the year with the popular post: 35 Great Posts From 2011 For Language Learners And A Bit More. This year, I’ve decided to end the year with the same sort of post but without the “a bit more.” I try to shut things down for about two weeks the…

Skype To Learn Another Language

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Benny, from Fluent in Three Months just shared a great video with his Language Hacking League.  I smiled through the whole thing and was inspired to share it with my readers as well because Skype is an amazing resource for language learners. [Click Here to Read the Post at Fluent in Three Months] So,…

Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners

How to Use Voice of America to Learn 43 Languages

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics Voice of America (VOA) is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. I know that sounds a bit scary, but the fact of the matter is, VOA is a great resource for language learners everywhere. According to the VOA charter, VOA is to serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news which…

10 Ideas for Learning a New Language Five Minutes At A Time

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics We live in the most hurried, busy time the world has perhaps ever seen. We have more engagements, more work, more distractions to fill more hours of more days and if you are like me, you still find yourself wishing you could accomplish – just a bit more. Amongst all this business is a…

Mimicry and Language Learning – Let It Flow

Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politics I’ve been hearing about some new ideas for language learning lately – namely shadowing and mimicry as language learning methods.  Not having a lot of experience with either, I was glad to connect with Idahose Ness of The Mimic Method.  He has kindly submitted a great guest post about mimicry which I present to…

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