Language Resources
If there weren’t already existing flashcard decks on applications such as Memrise and Anki, I probably wouldn’t bother to study with flashcards which is a shame because flashcards can be a great way to retain and refresh vocabulary in a new language. I still have blank notecards left over from high school, but I’ve never gotten around to sitting down and writing useful vocabulary on...
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Language Resources / Travel
Last month I did my first travel & language learning tips roundup and asked if you wanted me to continue sharing my favorite travel and language posts. The answer was a resounding “yes” and so today I’d like to share my favorite articles for the month of March. Here is this month’s collection of resources for language learning and travel from around the web. Language...
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In my opinion, tones are one of the (if not the) most difficult aspect of learning Mandarin Chinese. Even after close to a year of study, they are still something that I struggle with as a language learner. Without a private teacher or language exchange partners (who sometimes let your pronunciation slide), there’s really no good way of knowing whether or not you’re correctly pronouncing...
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The last few months, the talented blogger and language learner, Lindsay Dow, over at Lindsay Does Languages has hosted the #IGLC, a challenge to help her fellow language lovers improve their languages by using prompts. This was my second month participating, and I decided to up the challenge for February, opting to record videos (in both Croatian AND Mandarin – eek) this month as opposed...
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Eurolinguiste / Language Resources
We’ve arrived towards the end of month two of 2015 and so it’s time for me to share my language update and language learning strategies post. For those of you new to my blog, I am currently studying Mandarin Chinese and Croatian. I plan to take the HSK test this December and so I am preparing for that test using a variety of methods. Even...
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Eurolinguiste / Language Resources
I’ve mentioned my personal experience and history with language learning in a few different posts. And I try to keep this page updated. Although, if I am totally honest, I haven’t been doing a great job… I grew up speaking two languages, but I stopped speaking one of them at a young age, so I’ve forgotten nearly all of it. I can still read quite...
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Language Resources / Travel
Today I realized that I have quite the collection of language learning and travel posts saved between Pinterest and Bloglovin. As I scrolled through them I thought, “Why am I keeping these to myself?” So I decided to change that and share a few of my favorite posts with you. Here is a collection of resources for language learning and travel from around the web....
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Language Resources
Hey y’all, I’m really excited to share a guest post from fellow language lover Lindsay Dow of Lindsay Does Languages. For those of you who haven’t yet become acquainted with Lindsay, she is a language tutor based out of England and an avid traveler. We have been in touch for a while now and I adore her posts as well as her sense of humor....
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Language Resources
This past month I participated in Lindsay’s Instagram Language Challenge. It looked like an interesting challenge and a fun way to boost my Mandarin vocabulary, so I was eager to try it out. Lindsay provided a prompt for each day and they were pretty open, leaving us to find a creative way to use them to learn new words. I chose to do both video...
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Language Resources
In keeping with my earlier post, I’d like to share this month’s language update. For those of you that are new to my blog – welcome – I am studying Mandarin Chinese and Croatian. I plan to take the HSK test this coming December (minimum of Level 4) and so my focus is on preparing for that over the next several months. For comparison, you can...
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