Showing posts with label Language didactics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language didactics. Show all posts

Fastest way to understand 19 slavic Languages

Tim Keeley breaks down the slavic languages into three sub-families and shows how learning three slavic languages may enable you to understand all 19 to a large extent.

Several things polyglots do differently !

Knowing what polyglots do differently is holding the key to success in language learning. We delve into some practices and tips revealed by some polyglots.

Duolingo features

After Duolingo dumped its forum in March 2022, several new discussion groups have started up. 

Con este método aprendí 13 idiomas

El método de traducción bidireccional es lo que propone Luca Lampariello, el famoso políglota italiano.

Massive input

Once you have acquired an intermediate level in any language, massive input of reading and listening is what cranks up you passive knowledge of the language.

Organic Spanish

In two of the videos on the channel SpanisHacks, Juan is interviewing Kasia who runs the channel Organic Spanish. She emphasizes on learning a language using comprehensible input.

SpanisHacks

The channel SpanisHacks is run by a Mexican teacher, hence we discover one of the most common accent in the Americas and the most common heard in the US. 

Metatron Academy

More about the Youtube channel;  'MetatronAcademy' run by Raffaello.
Wheeras his command of Japanese and Chinese made him notorious, it are obviously not the first languages he learnt. Born in Sicily, he spoke Sicilian and Italian from an early age. Note that Sicilian is not an Italian dialect. The languages are not mutually intelligible. 

Teaching French

In this blog, I cover several YouTube channels teaching French, all of them with French as the teaching language. Needless to explain that these channels are not meant for absolute beginners. 

But when Duolingo gets too repetitive and boring, these channels will enlarge your French horizon. Bonne chance.

Language acquisition didactics

 In this blog we will delve into the didactics of the acquisition of a new language. You read it well: acquisition of a new language: not learning a new language. The audiovisual material used is mainly by Steve Kaufmann (Lingosteve) and Dr. Stephen Krashen.