Bilingual toys are becoming more popular with parents wanting to expose their children to other languages. Remember all those toys you had that taught you to count and read? How about getting them in another language as well? The benefits of learning a second, third, fourth language are more and more apparent in our multicultural [...]
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The world in your pocket
Tired of learning all those new languages while travelling? Well, of course you’re not. You’re here because you love learning languages and can’t get enough of them. However, there are some people who just want a nice easy solution. And sometimes you may even want to understand the answer to the question you just asked.
Well [...]
Communicating in relationships
Even when you’re speaking the same language, you can often confuse the message. This is never truer than when it comes to relationships. As the book title says, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.”
So, since this falls under my goal of “languages and cultural differences explored,” check out this article about a relationship [...]
To immerse or not to immerse
Here’s an article claiming immersing students in Mandarin might not have the same success as Spanish immersion programmes. My favourite part is the first comment saying that it seems to work pretty well in China; Chinese children seem to pick up Mandarin like it’s their native language or something!
Only one more benefit, I promise
A Welsh study is currently looking into the ability of bilingual people to concentrate better. They propose that because of the need to suppress one language while speaking, this ability can pass over to other aspects of life. Bilingual people have the ability to suppress the small things and focus on the relevant so to speak.
How’s your memory?
I love languages, but I have to at least try to be unbiased. So here’s an article on first language attrition. The unfortunate problem when your new language pushes the native one out of your brain. It happens. I’ve even noticed it in the short time I’ve been living in Spain. I’m sure it’ll only get [...]
So you want to learn a language?
Immersion is the best path to take. Here’s an interesting article on one person’s experiences and their thoughts on immersing yourself in the language. From personal experience, I have to agree. I struggled through four hours of Spanish classes a week for a year before I came here and it’s no comparison to what I learnt in [...]
The things we do for love
What language are these women from Thailand learning? Guess. Wrong. Wrong again. Never in a million years. The answer: Danish. They all have boyfriends in Finland and are learning the language to communicate better with their partners.
So, if you want to learn Danish, but don’t fancy the colder weather…Thailand may be your answer.
Free Resources
Here’s another section I’ve added that will grow with time. This will have all the free resources for language learning that I’ve managed to dig up on the Internet. Well, the ones I think are worth using anyway. So coming soon to your screen will be more resources and more languages. Send me your links [...]
Spanish Reviews
I’ve been a busy little bee over the weekend and written up two reviews for your reading pleasure. Both are for learning Spanish but I hope to be expanding into different languages as this website grows. And, as always, reader submissions are always welcome…
So head over and check out the Reviews section to read the reviews on [...]