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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 Also tagged blang, blog, haiku, poetry, talk to the fjords 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 – [...]
No haiku this week
Hey all – just to let you know there won’t be a haiku this week. I’ll instead be continuing to work on Talk to the Fjords, the Norwegian course being developed by myself and a couple friends.
There will still be a Fun Language Learning Tip on Sunday.
Talk to you then,
Kevin
Language Tip #2 – Don’t Study Grammar Too Much
So I was talking to a friend the other day, and this topic kind of came up. It made me think a bit about the role grammar plays in language, and especially in language-learning.
The word “grammar” itself is sticky territory when it comes to language-learning, mostly because it’s become something of a swear word. Every [...]
This…is…Blang!
Hey there, and welcome to Blang: The Language Blog. This, as you may guess, is a language blog. And you’re reading the first post ever, you lucky reader.
So why is this blog here? It’s here for lots of reasons…#1 being that I love languages. #2 being that, until now, I haven’t really bothered to make [...]
Posted in Updates Also tagged english, foreign language, Language, language blog, learn a language, learn to speak a language, second language, spanish 1 Comment
Language Learning Inspiration – Become UNABLE to not understand!