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It’s time for my monthly language learning strategies update! In April I took a bit of a break from Mandarin to work on Spanish for our trip to Barcelona, but I still made some time for Mandarin at the beginning of the month. My May Goals // Weekly Wishes Last Month’s Goals Get through some more of the “Watch Later” language videos in my Youtube...
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Language Resources / Travel
Welcome to the latest installment of my favorite language learning and travel tips. These are my favorite posts for the month of May! I appreciate all of your feedback on last month’s post. Before I share this weeks tips, I wanted to share that I am co-hosting the Instagram Language Challenge with Lindsay Does Languages this month. Please join our community of language learners on...
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Language Resources
Hey all, today I’m excited to share a guest post with you from Matt Baster of Language Reach. I also recently wrote an article for them available over at their blog on 5 reasons to learn a language for travel with 10 resources to help you do just that. Someone once said that ‘to speak another language is to possess another soul’, a sentence which...
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I have teamed up with Benny Lewis of Fluent in 3 Months as an affiliate. If you choose to purchase “Why French is Easy” by clicking on one of the links in this article, I make a small commission which goes towards keeping Eurolinguiste up and running. The opinions in this article are my honest thoughts of the book; I would not encourage you to...
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Welcome to the third installment of my favorite language learning and travel tips. These are my favorite posts for the month of April! I’m thinking of giving each of these roundups a theme or location and I’d love to know your thoughts. Do you like a random mix or would you like to see language and travel guides specific to a place? Let me know...
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Language Resources
Last month I reviewed the French version of Flashsticks, pre-made flashcards printed out onto sticky notes to create a fun and interactive way to study new vocabulary. This month, I’m staying on the same topic – flashcards – but I’d like to talk about a web-based option. Today I’d like to introduce you to Antosch & Lin. About Antosch & Lin Antosch & Lin are...
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Culture & History / Language Resources
These past 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 third month participating, and I decided to once again alter just how I took part in the challenge. The first month I posted images with new-to-me vocabulary. The second I recorded short...
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Language Resources
It’s time for my monthly language learning strategies update and I’ve decided to combine it with the monthly goal post I share as a part of Weekly Wishes. Due to the transition I mentioned earlier, I think it makes sense to combine the two since both posts are goal based. This post was created as part of The Nectar Collective linkup. Friends! It’s April which means that...
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Language Resources
One of the greatest benefits of technology is that it puts an endless amount of information in our hands and that it simplifies a lot of our daily tasks. This includes learning. With so many incredible and varied resources immediately available to us, it is so much easier to learn a language now than it was in the past. And not only are learning resources...
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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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