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Self-Guided Language Learning (Book Excerpt) Posted by Transparent Language on Apr 22, 2013 in Archived Posts
Karen Barbarossa is a lover of languages and an avid student of language, culture, and context. She understands more than a dozen languages, and has learned them through a combination of traditional classes, independent learning, and traveling. She has also taught English as a second language. Her experiences learning new languages both in and out…
Transparent Language Partners with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Offer World Language Apps Posted by Transparent Language on Dec 14, 2012 in Archived Posts
As a company passionate about language learning, we often partner with other like-minded organizations on language projects in addition to our own language products for educators. We recently partnered with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) to create a new pair of language apps, HMH Spanish Vocabulary and HMH French Vocabulary. These vocabulary building iOS apps pair…
The State of Language in Our World Posted by Transparent Language on Jul 30, 2012 in Archived Posts
As the internet and other technologies combine to bring people from opposite sides of the globe closer together, language use will undoubtedly evolve as well. Check out our “Speaking of Languages…” infographic to learn more about the world’s many languages, as well as the answer to the age-old question, “How long will it take me…
What the **** did you just say? Posted by Transparent Language on Mar 13, 2012 in Archived Posts
How Transparent Language Handles Teaching Language Learners Everything They Need to Know. And We Mean Everything. Profanity. It’s a fact of everyday life, the preferred method of self-expression amongst teenagers, and the secret longing of most foreign language students. Almost as soon as the basics of numbers and greetings are learned, like clockwork, learners start to ask…
Preserving endangered languages Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 17, 2010 in Archived Posts
This week, Professor Stephen Pax Leonard of Cambridge University embarks on a quest. He will spend a year in the remote Inuit town of Qaanaaq, Greenland, recording the language and culture of the endangered Inuktun dialect spoken there. According to linguist Michael E. Krauss, a language is considered to be endangered when children will probably not be speaking it…