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February 22, 2015
New Podcast: Becky Morales on Perfect Pronunciation and Having 4 Bilingual Kids
Hey, welcome to lucky episode 13 of the Creative Language Learning Podcast. In this episode, I'll be sharing a delicious foodie article and talking about Kid World Citizens with Becky Morales.
You Will Learn More About:How Becky went from Maths major to Spanish lover in collegeWhat it takes and what itmeans to become bilingualHow to put together a golden approach to teaching languageWhy pronunciation can be something you master at any age if you only have time, dedication and funHow to create...
February 16, 2015
My 8 Top Apps No Traveller Should Be Without
There is a German saying that sums up all that is annoying and all that is important about travelling:
Es gibt kein schlechtes Wetter. Es gibt nur schlechte Kleidung.
This means "there's no bad weather, there's just bad clothing". While single-handedly giving you and explanation for all those German tourists dressed in pro-level hiking gear, the saying also talks about attitude and preparation. Without good prep, travel won't be fun, so today I thought I'll share a few tools that I use every...
February 10, 2015
7 of the Best Language Learning Rules Ever
Today I want to go a little bit deeper into the content of all our Language Book Club interviews from 30 January. As you saw last week, the event was truly epic and delivered some wisdom from no fewer than 11 multilingual people (polyglots! yes they are!).
Between me and Chris Broholm from Actual Fluency, we had the chance to interview a great bunch of people about writing, language learning and challenges on the day, so here are the most important things that Language Book Club taught us:
1)...February 6, 2015
Building a Language Foundation with Apps: Babbel and Duolingo
If you're a Fluent regular, you'll be familiar with my regular guest author Angel Armstead, who is ambitious and varies her studies bylearning German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. Angel has been focusing on German recently and is on hand today with her own experience report of two leading apps, Duolingo and Babbel.
In this article, she shares the frustrations and benefits of using apps to get a first language foundation.
My Language App Choices
I decided late last year to look up Ge...
February 5, 2015
Lean Back and Enjoy our Language Book Club Videos (Plus: Free T-Shirt!)
Even though it seems like only yesterday, our Language Book Club event is now already two weeks ago and I haven't even had the time to thank all of you who watched and interacted with us. Language Book Club was an 11-hour long live event featuring language book discounts, interviews with authors, live video chats and extra giveaways. Both co-host Chris Broholm and I had a full but fascinating and amazing day.
The Vocab Cookbook Freebies
I want to thank each of the 255 (yay!) people who downloa...
February 2, 2015
My New Year Language Challenge: The First 15 Days of Italian
Ciao everyone, today I'm quite excited to be sharing my guest writer Tanja's first update on how she is getting on with the italki Language Challenge.
“Monolingualism is curable”
Ciao a tutti! Today’s title is quoting a local professor who always used to say this to her students. I think it’s a charming notion - and a good one. I am now a little more than two weeks into my italki Challenge adventure, I have had eight sessions since January 15th, so I’m slightly ahead of schedule. I said my fi...
January 29, 2015
Language Book Club: A One-Day Sale and Event with Language Authors
Have you put tomorrow's date (Jan 30) in your diary? The whole day will be filled with fun and learning, giveaways and special deals during Language Book Club, our Facebook event.
Here are All Discounted Books
Just a few of our discounted books on the day..
The following bookswill drop their prices for one day only. (Note I can't guarantee this and am informing you based on their promise, so no, you can't sue me if there's no deal to be found. I can promise you that my de...
January 27, 2015
New Podcast: Chris Broholm on Challenges, Information Overload and Book Club (and the Owl!)
In Episode 12 of theCreative Language Learning Podcast, I interviewed a fellow podcaster! Chris Broholm is a language learnerwith a big mission:10 Languages in 10 Years!
Listen to our interview to find out more about
Who everybody's favourite owl is!
How Chris built up his own support community of inspiring language learners through theActual Fluency Podcast
Whether there is a best way to approach language learning methods
What to think about when you set yourself an ambitious goal like Chris Broh...
January 25, 2015
“If I Were a Boy”: What Happens if French, Spanish and German Girls Share an Idea
Today I have a guest post for you here on Fluent, hopefully giving you insights into language learning through musics in a wholly new way. What if you didn't just watch "Let it Go from Frozen in 25 Languages" on YouTube. How about learning about how different languages use grammar to all express a common theme?
My guest Paul writes on behalf of Language Trainers, a language tutoring service. You can find some of their resources at languagetrainers.com and also email him at paul@languagetrainer...
January 20, 2015
How I Travel Europe: The Train from England to Germany
Have you ever stood in the security queue at your airport, realising with a bolt of anger that you're about to have to hand in your big bottle of expensive shampoo? Or been troubled by fear of flying, wishing for solid ground in the middle of turbulence? In today's article, I want to talk about train travel, an alternative way of getting around. My own journeys take place in Europe, and I have taken trains in more than 12 European countries. If you're interested in trying it out, here's how t...
