Aprender idiomas con canciones

aprender idiomas con canciones February 7, 2012

Montserrat Franco y Susanna Zaraysky explican cómo la música ayuda a aprender idiomas y cómo la música ladina (judeo-española) está conservando el idioma ladino. Colombia al día con Enrique Cordoba, WLRN, Miami, el 15 de enero 2012. Hay dos partes de la entrevista.

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Foreign language skills = $. How to motivate English speakers to learn languages

January 31, 2012
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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 at foreign languages and how to motivate English speakers to learn new languages. BBC’s Newshour on 30 January 2012.

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Use Music to Learn a Foreign Language

January 31, 2012

I wrote a guest blog post, Use Music to Learn a Foreign Language, on Aaron Myers’ Everyday Language Learner blog. He and I met in the fall of 2011 when I was reveling in the delight of Istanbul, Turkey. Over lunch, we discussed how to promote language learning. I like his title “Everyday Language Learner” [...]

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Sensual Brazilian music —> Learn Portuguese

January 17, 2012

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 a new language. The next video is our first using the song Você Não me Ensinou a Te Esquecer by [...]

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CNN interview: Why maintain an ancestral language like Ladino

January 10, 2012

Susanna Zaraysky habla con Mercedes Soler en el program de NotiMujer en la CNN en Español sobre el idioma ladino (el antiguo español de los judíos explusados de España durante la Inquisición católica en 1492), de dónde viene, como se mantuvó y porque es importante para los sefardíes (judíos españoles) de no perder su lengua [...]

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Video: How music can save a language like Ladino

December 27, 2011

Susanna Zaraysky, autora del libro, El Idioma es Música, habla con Fabiola Kramsky del idioma ladino (de los judíos sefardíes expulsados de España durante la Inquisición) y cómo se conserva hoy en día con la música. Kat Parra canta “En la Mar”, una canción ladina. Al Despertar, Telefutura 66, San Francisco CA. Susanna Zaraysky speaks [...]

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Video: How the Ladino language saved a Jewish boy’s life during the Holocaust

December 26, 2011

English subtitles available by pressing the “CC” button in the lower right side of the screen or the Interactive Transcript button to the right of the flag button below the screen. Susanna Zaraysky, autora del libro, El Idioma es Música, habla con Fabiola Kramsky del idioma ladino (de los judíos sefardíes expulsados de España durante [...]

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Turkish delights: Food in Istanbul

December 16, 2011
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Instead of just writing about my wonderful four days in Istanbul, I’ve decided to make a small picture gallery of food and cafes in the city. I am not waiting 11 years, like last time, to return to this great city!  

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Wearing Kyrgyz national dress and kalpak hat

December 12, 2011
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Going Kyrgyz in a Kyrgyz dance costume at a costume ball in Alameda, California.     Wearing the Kyrgyz kaplak hat. The Kalpak is a hat usually made from four panels of white felt with traditional patterns stitched into them as decoration. It is worn by males of all ages especially in rural Kyrgyzstan, and [...]

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(Linguistic) ignorance is bliss, sometimes

December 10, 2011
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Yes, I do enjoy linguistic ignorance from time to time. I met with a Turkish Couchsurfer when I was in Istanbul who generously spent two days showing me the city via the Bosphorous ferry and a drive along the Golden Horn. He wanted to give me a crash course in the Turkish language and I [...]

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