The importance of female role models for female language learners
Last week, for International Women’s Day, I wrote a blog post, How we all benefit when women are multilingual about the scarcity of female language bloggers and You Tube polyglots on the Fluent in...
Learning Portuguese with rap and Brazilian music, Don Blanquito and Idahosa Ness
I interviewed (Don Blanquito) and Idahosa Ness about how they, as native English speakers, create rap, funk and hip hop music in Spanish and Portuguese. They also discuss how music helps people get into the...
Review of Babel No More: what makes people learn many languages?
I highly recommend the book, Babel No More. It's a fun read as it's written like a detective story and you can feel the passion for languages that the hyperglots demonstrate.
Why I read Babel No...
Learn Portuguese, not portunhol/ portuñol, by listening to Brazilian music
The problem facing anyone going from Spanish to Portuguese is to mistake similar words or sentence structures to be the same. They are not. I am speaking from experience. I also have to catch...
Learn Portuguese: The joy of just “being” in Portuguese and not speaking
(Photo is of Lisbon, Portugal.)
Feeling like I am in Portugal without leaving the United States
I ventured into the Little Portugal area of San Jose, California, where the local immigrant population from the Azores islands...
Human spirit is stronger than politics. Music feeds the spirit and teaches us languages..
Learning languages with music, preserving the Ladino languages with songs, CALA CNN, February 10, 2012
On Friday February 10, 2012, the CALA show on CNN interviewed Montserrat Franco and I in Spanish about how to...
Foreign language skills = $. How to motivate English speakers to learn languages
Why is the UK losing 11 to 26 billion dollars a year? Nick Chambers explains that there aren't enough foreign language speakers to service export markets.
Susanna Zaraysky answers why English speakers are not good...
Sensual Brazilian music —> Learn Portuguese
Luciana Lage of Street Smart Brazil and I have a video series on how to learn Portuguese via Brazilian songs.
Here is the introductory video where we explain the connection between listening, music and learning...
Language is Music. Songs help Rep. Gabrielle Giffords regain speech
Language and Music. Language is Music. Music helps you learn language.
It's so simple. Yet sometimes it feels like I am talking to the wall when I tell people how lyrical songs can help people...
Learn Portuguese with Brazilian songs
I am not the only one singing the praises of Brazilian music as a way to learn Portuguese!
On September 29, 2011, I attended an event of the San Francisco Brazilian Portuguese MeetUp and asked...
