Language Resources
Well, we’re nearly halfway through the month of August which means it’s time for my monthly language update! My August 2014 Language Learning Strategies In the past, I tried to study multiple languages at once. I’ve more recently decided to focus on one language at a time so that they get the attention they deserve. This month I found myself experimenting with a lot of...
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I’ve seen a number of posts circling the web on “the best ways to learn a language,” and quite often (and near the top!), “pillow talk” is offered as a means of learning a language. It’s almost like they advocate dating a native speaker of your target language just for the sake of learning the language. Seriously? Yes, it’s great to have friends and a...
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Early this month I mentioned that I wanted to do a language update as part of my Weekly Wishes since it’s been so long since I’ve done one (read 7 months). I did go through a period where I didn’t do much studying or practice – it was completely sporadic – and I feel quite horribly about it, but I’m glad to share that I’m...
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I was contacted a few months back by FluentU because they thought I might be interested in trying out their platform as I continued to learn Mandarin Chinese. Never one to miss out on an opportunity to try out new language learning tools, I agreed and am I now a big fan. I had hoped to publish my review earlier, but as you know, I’ve...
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It’s one thing to study and learn a language, but it’s entirely another when you finally get to use it. While it’s fun to earn points on Memrise or Duolingo, slip Disc 16 of your Pimsleur Mandarin lessons into your CD Player, or recognize a symbol or two of Chinese in a magazine article, it’s far more rewarding to begin to hold a conversation (or...
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Here is one of the posts that I promised a while back in my article on onomatopoetic French expressions, animal sounds! I know that a few of you mentioned them in the comments on the last post and I stated that I intended to do write it. I must admit that it has been sitting in “drafts” since I wrote that previous post (I wrote...
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My husband and I code-switch so often between English and French that it becomes far too easy to get lost and use a word from the wrong language. Sometimes this is intentional but other times it is not. No, actually, most the time it is not (for me at least). I often find myself at a complete loss for a word in one language or...
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UncleVania is one of my good friends from university and a fellow ethnomusicologist. I asked UncleVania to write a guest post on Eurolinguiste due to the fact that this dear friend is not only a brilliant writer and educator, but bilingual in Greek and English. Here is his post on his experience learning and living in another language. Unbelievably, UncleVania is not yet a blogger,...
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Just for fun I thought I would share a list of French onomatopoetic sayings with their English translations. The word for onomatopoeia in French is onomatopée. French Onomatopoetic Expressions Aïe, Ouïlle – ouch Atchoum – achoo Ben… – Uhm… Beurk, Berk – yuck Bom bom, Poum poum – thump thump (heart beating) Bof – uh huh (kind of like “not really” or “yeah right”) Chut...
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Eurolinguiste / Language Resources
My problem is that I have too many things that I like to do and not enough time for them all. I constantly seek ways to find a way to balance all of my hobbies, but it also means that I’m never bored. There’s always something to do. Along with traveling, photography, language learning, music, writing, and cooking, I love to read. When I say...
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