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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 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?
Posted in Features, Fun With Words, Language Also tagged failku, haiku, language learning, Language Learning Tips, poetry 1 Comment
Language Tip – Language Goals
Wow, what an absence, huh? I’ve been super-busy and in Greece. But, I’m at back today at least, and I hope to publish a new haiku tomorrow.
I was just thinking about something and thought I’d post it – the importance of having an actual goal when learning a language. You see, I’m learning French. I [...]
Posted in Features, Language, Language Learning Tips Also tagged french, fun language learning, goals, Language Learning Tips, learn french, secret language, study foreign language Leave a comment
Haiku Tuesday – Upcoming
What if fjords could talk?
In Norwegian they’d complain.
“Altfor mye regn!”
I’m going to be producing a language course! What do you think?
Posted in Features, Language Also tagged blang, free language courses, haiku, poetry, study foreign language 1 Comment
Double Feature – Choose Your Words Carefully and Another Language Experiment – Singing
Did you make it past the long title? Hi, then. Welcome to our first Double Feature. Let’s get started, shall we?
Choose Your Words Carefully
First, following on from Tuesday’s haiku, I’ve been thinking about how ideas translate among languages and how the best way to say something could, at first glance, seem totally different among different [...]
Posted in Features, Fun With Words, Language, Language Learning Tips Also tagged foreign language, language experiment, language learning, music, singing, speak foreign language better Leave a comment
What’s your latest foreign-language dream?
I just read this article over at Chipanglish, and I thought it made way for a good question: What’s the latest language that you’ve dreamed in? For me, I think it’s French. The weirdest one ever is German, about 7 years ago now…I don’t think I’ve dreamt in that again since. I’ve had at least [...]
Word Usage Special: Marketing-speak
Something that happened to me has incited me to write an impromptu post (yes, before the other promptu posts) on marketing-speak.
Today, I went shopping to fill up my cubicle at work with some snacks…you know, candy, chips, crackers, the works. This is an effort to save money and not buy them from the vending machine. [...]
Posted in Features, Fun With Words, Language, Linguistic Opinions Also tagged advertising, jargon, marketing speak, opinion Leave a comment
When have you learned enough of a language?