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Learn a new language with a song
If you ask people who are successful in learning foreign languages what are their favorite methods for studying a new language, many will mention learning from songs. The first thing that comes to your...
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How to study pronunciation with a song
In the first post Learn a new language with a song we were talking about the advantages of singing as a method of studying a foreign language. Besides the fact that songs are original products of the...
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Getting emotional – interference in bilinguals
A Zen teacher would say that we need to get rid of emotions, that they are an unwelcome baggage that hinders us on our pathway to enlightenment. Driven by emotions we tend to commit smaller and bigger...
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Are some nations louder? On voicing patterns and foreign accents
Remember that peaceful sunny afternoon, your kayak sliding away with a slow river current, and you, balancing the paddle in your hands, watching the world go past, listening to birds twittering in the...
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How to create a speaking robot
Who hasn’t read those science fiction novels where humans live next to speaking robots that can think and feel, so that they basically become better than us, because they don’t tire and they don’t die...
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3 myths about bilingualism dispelled
Let’s look today at the most common myths about bilingualism, still haunting the scientific scene. Myth One – monolinguality is normal. A monolingual individual is the norm all over the world. It is,...
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The role of the translator
This week three years ago a great American novelist and short story writer passed away in his house in Cornish, New Hampshire. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919; his mother had Scots-Irish origin and his...
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Bilingual career options – how to make your job a success
Today’s post about the benefits of being bilingual in your professional life was written for us by a fellow linguist and blogger Micha from Mindpeeler.com (you can find more info about Micha and his...
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Learning grammar proactively – deduce the rules yourself
I decided to study Spanish. Why? I think this language can come very useful to me in a not so distant future, and also because I simply LOVE learning a new language and I especially look forward to...
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Pretty Ugly – two poems in one
I found the poem Pretty Ugly online and it immediately caught my attention both for its meaning and translation challenges. The author Abdullah Shoaib gives us two poems in one, both with a very...
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