Free tips on learning languages, Polyglot Project
Claude Cartigenese of the "Polyglot Project" compiled a huge 600 page document with stories from many language learners around the world who explain how they became polyglots. Some of the linguists in the book...
Is a polyglot’s brain different?
Listen to this new Subtitle podcast episode "Is a polyglot's brain different?", to find out the answer.
You'll also learn about my language-learning story and about the brains of people who speak many languages.
I did...
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...
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...
Education: It’s the music, stupid!
While politicians bicker about how to re-organize and finance schools, parents worry about their children’s academic performance and low-performing students struggle to follow lessons, we are forgetting about a free, fun and extremely powerful...
Making language learning free and available to all
Aaron Myers and I met in Istanbul, Turkey in November 2011. Aaron Meyers has created his project, I-586, to bring free language learning materials to people in languages other than English since so many...
Review of Babel No More: what makes people learn many languages?
I highly recommend the book, Babel No More. It's a fun read as it's written like a detective story and you can feel the passion for languages that the hyperglots demonstrate.
Why I read Babel No...
Why you should care about endangered languages
Endangered species. Endangered whales. Endangered languages?
What's an endangered language?
About half of the world's 6000 languages will be extinct in 100 years unless we act to preserve them.
In this video, I explain why you should...
How to communicate if you’re deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH)
I am curious about how deaf people in the US communicate. Anywhere from 37 to 140 out of every 1,000 people in the United States have some kind of hearing loss. Either you or someone you know needs or will need assistive hearing devices.
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...
