By For Publisher on December 20, 2011
The speed and consistency at which you assimilate a foreign language depends on a lot of factors, including:
1) Whether or not your mother tongue and the foreign language you’re learning have a shared lexical family and glossary (Latin or Germanic languages for example)
2) Your own ability to assimilate new words and think in the [...]
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By For Publisher on November 21, 2011
There’s good news for parents and babies and its welcome news indeed. It’s called baby sign language. The lack of a means for communication between a parent and a baby has always been frustrating for both parties. A parent hears their child crying and is helpless to understand what the baby wants.
They do the [...]
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By For Publisher on November 20, 2011
If you have children of your own, or if you have a little brother or sister that you’ve watched growing up, you might have noticed how they started learning your native language. The first words they usually speak out are the ones that they come into contact the most often, usually the name of their [...]
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By For Publisher on November 19, 2011
Some love Esperanto, some hate it, some revere it, and some ridicule it. Most don’t know about it. Hailed as the universal language, Esperanto facilitates relationships between international communities. It is simple, universal, and easy to learn. Its inventor, Ludwig Zamenhof, envisioned a language where people of
every nationality could come together and speak freely without [...]
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By For Publisher on August 31, 2011
When taking a language course, most students are only interested in passing it quickly and get the final diploma, which may be required for a job or simply so that their CV will look more consistent. Still, there are some students that take these courses because they are genuinely interested in learning that particular language, [...]
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By For Publisher on August 25, 2011
I have to admit the title of my section this week is OUTSTANDING! We all know as we are progressing towards our personal goals, dreams and aspirations that we will fail repeatedly, and then all of a sudden we achieve our ultimate outcome and attain our WHY in LIFE! As I state on [...]
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