Amazon opens Spanish-language Kindle store
Good news for tech-savvy language learners – you can now buy Kindle ebooks in Spanish! Earlier this month Amazon launched eBooks Kindle en Espanol at amazon.com/tiendakindle. The shop currently has...
View ArticleKorean in 15 minutes
Learning Korean? Or just want to know what the alphabet symbols mean? A comic created by artist and traveller Ryan Estrada could help you out! The comic, seen over at Ryan’s Tumblr, claims to you can...
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Ouch!
So you’re in a foreign country, and you stub your toe. What do you say? Well, you could say “ouch!” but why not say it in the local language? Listen & Learn’s fun game can help you do so – click on...
View ArticleChristmas gifts, Part 1
It’s that time of year when everyone is racing around, frantically trying to think of gifts to buy their loved ones. Why not give them the gift of a new language? Listen & Learn are now offering...
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How to laugh online
If you’re starting to understand humour in a different language, you’re likely making pretty good progress with that language. When you’re chatting online, how do you show you’re laughing? In English...
View ArticleGo watch a movie!
When you’re learning a new language, it’s a good idea to try and immerse yourself in it as much as possible. If you can’t move to the country of your target language, perhaps try supplementing the...
View ArticleSpeak up!
I think it would be fair to say that speaking is the main problem area of my language learning attempts. Whilst I’ve had some success picking up individual words, and have decent reading skills in...
View ArticlePinterest for language learning
In case you haven’t heard of it, Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website, where you can ‘pin’ images from around the web on boards that you’ve created. You can also use it to help with your...
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Games For Practice
Learning new vocabulary is essential to improving your language skills. One way to improve is through online quizzes and games. Word Dynamo, which is linked with Dictionary.com, has a number of games...
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The pencil trick
In my last Spanish class, my teacher made us do something rather odd. We were practicing saying new words and sentences aloud, and she was not happy with our pronunciation. So we were told to put our...
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