Language confusion: 3 funny polyglots explain how to avoid mixing up your languages
If you thought that polyglots are just serious language lovers who spend all their time talking about grammar, you are wrong!
I spent three fun-filled days in Poland with Richard Simcott and Luca Lampariello switching...
Do you need musical talent to learn languages? No.
When people hear the title of my book, Language is Music, they often assume that one has to be a musician or a good singer to learn languages or that I profess that someone...
Ladino and the beauty of Sarajevo, Bosnia
"Sarajevo has a soul. It has a heart."
My passion for Ladino/Judeo-Spanish is no secret. In this video, Richard Simcott (the hyperpolyglot extraordinnaire) and I speak in Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian (or whatever else you like to call...
How deaf people can learn foreign languages with music
I often hear these excuses: "I have no ear for languages" or "I don't have any musical talent, so I can't learn a foreign language".
WRONG!
Here is a very short video I did on Spanish...
Living in Italian (Vivere in italiano): A language that taught me to live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV2d2qcIyvA
My relationship to the Italian language was one of wonder and fun until I decided to use it professionally.
I took one semester of beginning Italian grammar in college. The class was so...
Learn Spanish, English & Japanese with songs (chords, Spanish, English & Japanese lyrics included)
Do you want to learn Spanish, English or Japanese using songs but you are too lazy to ind the translation in English, lyrics in Spanish and chord notations?
It can be time consuming to dig...
Brain Power: Repeating sounds
At the gym, I read the Can You Build a Better Brain? article in Newsweek about how to restructure our brains as we take on new things to learn. We need to repeat actions many times ...
Good videos about accents and language learning
1. Are you having difficulty learning English? Check out this videos about how to make difficult English sounds with the help of food:
2) Here are some tips on learning Spanish by listening to...
Even the Ivy League cheats students on foreign language education
A super expensive Ivy League education at Harvard may still deprive students of the knowledge they need to get ahead in this world.
According to the article, Colleges come up short on what students need to...
Free Materials for Language Teachers, Mis Cositas
Lori Langer de Ramirez has many free materials for language teachers in various languages (English, ESL, French, Spanish and Chinese) at http://www.miscositas.com/.
Thanks for the free stuff!
