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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 [...]
Also posted in Linguistic Opinions Tagged language inspiration, Language Learning Tips, norsk, norway, norwegian Leave a comment
Blang has its own home!
Hello!
Blang is now free from the shackles of subdirectorial servitude. That’s right…you’re reading it on www.blangblog.com, in case you didn’t notice.
It was about time to give Blang some domain name bling, and now it’s been done.
Nothing else has changed, yet…but it will.
I also finished lesson 1 of Talk to the Fjords (that’s the Norwegian course [...]
Also posted in Language Courses, Updates Leave a comment
Martes de Haiku / Haiku Tuesday ¡en Español!
Me gustó escribir un haiku en otra idioma hace un mes que ¡lo voy a hacer otra vez! (La rima -pronunciación sudoamericana- no fue intencional.) La tema de hoy es la economía, aunque no sé mucho de ella. Leí algo ayer en mobile.lemonde.fr de mi móvil. De todos modos…
No tengo mucho
dinero. Culpa a la
economía!
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In English:
I [...]
Also posted in Features, Fun With Words, Poetry Tagged bilingual, foreign language, haiku, poetry, spanish Leave a comment
Haiku Tuesday – Contact Form Works Again
Like kypros.org,
One more broken site feature
is now functional!
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If you can’t gather the message from the haiku, the contact form is now working. So now there’s no excuse to not send me fan mail! Come on, there must be somebody out there who reads these on occasion. Let me know you’re there!
(Note: kypros.org is a great [...]
It’s never too late for Haiku Tuesday! Mistakes
Since I have writer’s
block: If you fix your mistakes,
Yay! You are fluent.
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Just couldn’t think of anything witty to write today, but the main point of today’s haiku is that like most skills, there’s no one way to get good, and often you only have limited control over your exposure to situations that will enable you [...]
Haiku Tuesday – WizOne Solutions
The main reason this
is late: wizonesolutions
dot com. Coming soon!
That’s right…wizonesolutions.com is almost done, and I’m hoping to launch it this week. Know someone who needs Web Development? Might as well get them to check with me! For now, add me on LinkedIn and contact me!
Keep checking on wizonesolutions.com, because it’s coming.
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Haiku Tuesday Returns with Failku
I went to Greece and
worked too much. Thus I write this
haiku apology.
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Bonus haiku
He who learns language
without interest fails, a lot
like this haiku.
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Can you spot the failku?
Also posted in Features, Fun With Words Tagged failku, haiku, Language, language learning, Language Learning Tips, poetry 1 Comment
When have you learned enough of a language?