Colleges strive to make foreign languages relevant
USA Today and Higher Ed report in the article, Colleges strive to make foreign languages relevant, that one college is finally getting it right and making foreign language education be more than just grammar and...
Don’t fault innovative musicians!
Instead of criticizing people who are risk takers, we should be applauding their efforts because if we don’t innovate, these languages are going to die.
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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...
TEDx: Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls.
Alas, my TEDx talk on why we need to learn foreign languages and save endangered languages via music has been posted online.
Rosetta Stone or a teacher? Foreign language learning technology
About a week ago, I received an email from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages asking the members if they felt that the ads for the Rosetta Stone foreign language learning...
Luca Spaghetti (from Eat, Pray, Love) learned English with American pop songs
The worldwide bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, turned the already comical surname of Luca Spaghetti into an almost household name.
Luca Spaghetti
In the USA Today article, When (Luca) Spaghetti met (Elizabeth) Gilbert ..., reported that Mr....
Video on relationship between Language and Music, “Music, Language and the Brain”
Great video of a lecture by Aniruddh Patel on the relationship between language and music at the Library of Congress. The discussion of how language background can effect classical music from England and...
Accents matter. Which one to choose?
Learning a language with various regional varieties or dialects means choosing which accent(s) to learn. In this video with Richard Simcott and Luca Lampariello, we talk about how we chose which accent to learn...
A musician and polyglot discuss how to learn languages with music
While in Sarajevo last month filming the documentary Saved By Language (about how the endangered language of Ladino saved a Jewish boy's life in World War II), I spent time with my dear friend
Damir...
