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...
Music therapy effects the brain
Here’s a great show in Portuguese about the healing effects of music. Musicoterapia e a energia que vem dos sons (Music therapy and the energy that comes from sounds) from Caminhos Alternativos from the Brazilian...
Learn a language. Change your mind.
My hero in brain work, Dr. Oliver Sacks, shows us in his New York Times Opinion piece how learning can help us grow our brains, at any age.
This Year, Change Your Mind:
Don’t leave...
Susanna’s interview on the Polygot Project Podcast
David Mansaray and Claude Cartaginese are doing a The Polyglot Project Podcast with interviews of language learners. It was an honor to talk to them about how I learned languages. I clarified how I...
Where are the female and non-white polyglots?
Most of the public Internet polyglots are white males.
Do race and national origin play a role in the decisions people make about learning languages? What can we do to inspire more non-whites to learn...
Portuguese via Brazilian music
In this lesson, Luciana Lage (of Street Smart Brazil) and I use the song Toda Sexta Feira to teach the days of the week in Portuguese, how to use the words todo/toda, and pronounce...
Review of Rosetta Stone (Arabic), $1 tea lesson is better than $500 Rosetta Stone
I learned more Arabic in 10 minutes with a $1 tea than from 1.5 hours of Rosetta Stone ($500).
(This review shows the negative and positive elements of the Rosetta Stone software for Arabic. I...
Free and inexpensive resources to learn Arabic
Free online resources to learn the Arabic alphabet, phrases and other
BBC Arabic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/arabic/guide/videos/learning_arabic.shtml
Arabic alphabet: http://arabicreadingcourse.com/
List of Arabic learning resources: http://arabic.desert-sky.net/links.html
Explanations of songs, dialects and other resources for students of Arabic, The Arabic Student,...
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...
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...
