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Not dead, just busy
Hi all – the brave ones of you who may still be out there
I’m just writing to say hi after a period of a silence and give you a bit of an update on things.
I’ve mostly been busy with my business, WizOne Solutions. There’s a lot going on, so I haven’t had much [...]
Try a Cool French Course (Rocket French) for Free!
Hi all,
I came across an offer to get a 6-day long taste of Rocket French for free recently. This course/software package is pretty cool. The presenters are engaging, and the lessons keep you interested. It also comes with the full shebang – support on forums straight from the course creator (!) and a whole Member’s [...]
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Language Learning Inspiration – Become UNABLE to not understand!
Hi all,
As you may have read on Twitter, my blogging frequency is reduced at the moment due to some stuff I need to sort out. But I thought I’d blog when I had moments of inspiration, such as today.
I was listening to Norsk Attrasksjon med Linda Eide on NRK Nett-TV and noticed I understood most [...]
Posted in Language, Linguistic Opinions Tagged language inspiration, Language Learning Tips, norsk, norway, norwegian Leave a comment
The fate of Haiku Tuesday
Hi there – bit late this week.
I’m thinking of making some changes to Haiku Tuesday. I think the frequency is too high, and it’s taking some airtime from other, more worthy content I could be writing. This is only emphasized by the fact that nobody gave the foreign-language haikus a shot – so I don’t [...]
Posted in Features, Original Haikus, To The Readers, Updates Tagged blang, blog, haiku, norwegian, poetry, talk to the fjords 2 Comments
Fun Language Learning Tip – Take a dip (immersion)
One of the toughest parts of learning a language can be having enough exposure to it to feel comfortable with it. Sure, there are whatever materials you are using to actively study the language, whether it be TV, radio, books, a self-study course, friends, or whatever. What do you do, though, outside of those situations? [...]
We’ve been Facebooked
The title says it all. Everyone’s doing it, and so are we. Blang is now Facebooking it up in Facebookland. In fact, we’re DOUBLE-Facebooking it up! We’ve got a group AND a page!
The group is great for discussions, since we don’t have a forum here. You can become a fan of the page and see [...]
Learn with Haiku Tuesday – L’entretien de la mémoire
Hi! This is the second post in our new Learn with Haikus feature. This time it’s in French! I can’t vouch that the French is of perfect quality, so if there are any mistakes, I hope des francophones agréables will help me out
The rules are the same – translate these haikus into English [...]
Posted in Features, Original Haikus 2 Comments
Fun Language Learning Tip – Watch TV in Your Target Language
Hi again! In the spirit of last week, I thought to look at another medium that is useful for learning languages. In fact, I can think of two friends (just off the top of my head) who became fluent in English this way!
There’s sound reason for it; television has both visual AND aural components – [...]
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