Deezer & learning languages with songs
I have partnered with Deezer's streaming music service for their Music and Language campaign.
We did a research survey with 12,000 participants in 6 countries to see how people are already using songs to learn...
Multilingual ≠ not a racist or a terrorist
I'd like to think that those who are multilingual are less likely to become racists and revert to deadly extremism because communicating with people in other languages opens one’s mind and introduces one to...
The CIA battling the Soviet Union via Dr. Zhivago
Did you know that the Central intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in publishing and distributing the epic Russian novel Doctor Zhivago?
I didn’t until I listened to the audio book version of The...
Watch “Saved by Language” for free!
**** Press the CC button & the Settings/HD button (next to the CC button) to choose English, Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian, Ladino (Djudeo-Espanyol), Portuguese, Spanish, French or Bulgarian subtitles. Ladino is listed as "Spanish (Spain)". Spanish subtitles...
Watch “Saved by Language” and other Judeo-Spanish documentaries for free!
The producers of the documentary Saved by Language are organizing a Judeo-Spanish Language Week online festival. Four recent films and one new audio project about the endangered language of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) will be available for free from February 21 to February 26 at: http://muestroespanyol.com/.
FREE: San Francisco & Berkeley presentations and screenings of “Saved by Language”
FREE: San Francisco & Berkeley presentations and screenings of "Saved by Language"
Como pronunciar las palabras con “th” en inglés (these, this)
Las palabras en inglés que comienzan con las letras "th" juntas causan muchos problemas porque tienen sonidos diferentes. Mediante la canción "These are the times to remember" by Billy Joel, enseño como diferenciar los...
Univision: La letra “t” en las contracciones negativas en inglés
En este video, explico como pronunciar la letra "t" en inglés en las contracciones negativas.
Learn Spanish and Portuguese via Roberto Carlos’ song “Amigo”
Luciana Lage of Street Smart Brazil and I teamed up once again to show the differences between Spanish and Portuguese in the song, "Amigo" by Roberto Carlos. Read the blog post on the Street...
Como pronunciar la forma condicional en inglés
Mediante la canción "You'd be so nice to come home to", se puede aprender la forma condicional en inglés.