Music can bridge the income gap in education
Music can help people bounce back after a stroke or brain trauma. It can also narrow the achievement gap between poor and rich kids.
Le mistral gagnant: Rediscovering my inner Francophile in India and Quebec
One missing digit
One missing digit (not a finger!) almost kept me from going to India.
En route to Chennai (Madras), I had a rude awakening at the Frankfurt airport: my passport number in my...
Beyond Gangnam Style: Learning Korean via Korean Music
An Introduction to Korean Indie Music for Korean Language Learners
Guest post by Sam Gendreau
It’s been 5 years since I started looking for some of the best possible—preferably noncommercial—Korean bands out there, and today is...
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...
Mixed accent and voices in my head
At the risk of sounding like I am crazy, I hear multilingual voices in my head. To learn native pronunciation, I first hear a native speaking in my head.
When we see things in our heads,...
Russia through French eyes: Experiencing life anew in a different language
Rare is the book which envelops my attention, delights me in its prose, makes me re-read passages both for the joy of the flow of the sentences and for the content and strikes a...
Defense Language Institute: “We learn foreign languages so you don’t have to”
Which US government agency is most interested in vocal about foreign language training?
a) The Department of Education
b) The Department of State
3) The Defense Department
The answer is #3. The US has no national foreign language...
Low creativity in education is bringing the country down
Is America Experiencing a Creativity Bust?
This is a great article from Newsweek about how too much standardization and rote memorization in school is bringing down our ability to think creatively.
Foreign languages classes are often...
Portuguese via Spanish, Italian & a little French: different roads to a mellifluous tongue
The strange thing with the Portuguese language is I don't remember why I wanted to learn it, yet I can speak it. The Spanish language and Italian literature and film have been major influences in my learning the Portuguese language and becoming interested in Portugal.
Free ebooks until May 31, 2020
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