Posts Tagged with ‘languages’
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Some Thoughts on Russian-Language Pedagogy
12 May 2012See – I told you Michael Erard was nice. He responded to my review of his book, which got me thinking…
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Watching a Film – With No English
01 May 2012When I heard of this film a few months ago, I knew I wanted to see it. It’s called Battle…
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Welcome, HTLAL Readers!
25 Apr 2012Some poster in the How To Learn Any Language forum linked to me, specifically this post. I love the HTLAL…
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Which Foreign Language Should You Learn?
29 Mar 2012More Intelligent Life has an interesting series concerning what the best foreign language to learn is. The contenders are Arabic,…
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Jack of All Trades, Master of None
12 Mar 2012Note: If you came here from HTLAL, please read my addendum here. I hate fake polyglots. You may have heard…
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Those Dreaded False Cognates
14 Jan 2012One thing that was so amusing (at least to me) in my post about learning Serbian was my (sarcastic) assertion…
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Serbian in a Year?
12 Jan 2012I mean, why not, right? There are intrepid bloggers out there who learn Russian and Turkish and Italian in a…
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Finished! And Home.
23 Dec 2011I am finally finished with this semester. I only had one exam (but I already whined about that so I’ll…
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Pet Peeve: Bad Translators
19 Dec 2011Bad translators perpetrate bad translations, and that’s reason enough to be annoyed by them. Once, I was flipping through a…
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My First Guest Post
01 Dec 2011I am very, very happy to announce that I have published my first guest post, obviously on a site that…
