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Use A Learning Notebook Posted by on Apr 30, 2012 in Archived Posts

A very helpful strategy in language learning is to write your own book about your new language. No, I don’t mean a classroom-ready language course. Just a simple notebook in which you can write comments about your lessons, notes on your progress, things you discovered in that “Aha!” moment, or anything that helps you practice…

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How Do You Learn A Language? Posted by on Apr 23, 2012 in Archived Posts

Everyone has their own style for learning how to do something. It could be a job skill, how to care for their lawn, hobbies and crafts, etc. Each individual has a preferred way to learn, a way that helps them see how things are done clearly and makes sense in their minds so they can…

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Languages In Demand Posted by on Apr 3, 2012 in Archived Posts

Do you speak another language? In nearly every field and profession, from financial services to sales, there is a growing need for multilingual candidates. Any company that has offices and clients throughout the world seeks employees who can speak languages such as Russian, Arabic, German, Spanish or French. You don’t have to be a highly…

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Learn a Language – Naturally Posted by on Mar 29, 2012 in Archived Posts

Have you ever been bored? You don’t want to be where you are, or you’re watching a movie seems to take forever to end? The brain is like a child. It likes things that are relevant and interesting, things that will keep its attention for hours. Of course, when a language is new, it’s interesting…

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Improving Your Speaking Skills Posted by on Mar 19, 2012 in Archived Posts

Human speech organs can produce almost 800 different sounds. Babies and small children can hear all these possible phonemes, but soon develop a preference for the sounds they hear in their native language. Children also tend to be very good mimics which enables them to learn foreign languages faster and with native sounding accents. When…

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Expand Your Learning Posted by on Mar 19, 2012 in Archived Posts

Your language learning experience should never be limited to just the books and CDs of the language course alone. Here are some great ways to make it a part of your life! Web Sites The Internet is an endless resource for language learning materials. With just a few clicks, you can have newspapers, magazines, reference…

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Improving Your Listening Skills Posted by on Mar 19, 2012 in Archived Posts

When you are going through your daily routine, which one of these activities do you find yourself doing the most – Reading? Speaking? Writing? Listening? The top answer is listening. For most of the day, you listen to someone speaking to you, you listen to your MP3 player or streaming Internet radio, you overhear conversations…

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