Every month I keep my eyes peeled for great articles about language learning.
When the month ends, I make a selection of the best links I’ve found.
Here’s my selection from April 2018.
5 Ways to Deal with Difficult People When Learning a New Language
Difficult people can be hard to deal with sometimes.
And it’s even harder when you’re speaking in a foreign language.
Here are 5 ways to make sure they don’t destroy your dreams of reaching fluency.
Do It for Love: Learning Your Partner’s Native Language
They say love is blind, and for sure it often ignores distance.
You travel abroad, you live in a different country, or maybe you don’t actually move from the city where you’re born. No matter how you meet them before you know you’re in love with someone from another country.
In the beginning, all is sparks and fast heartbeats:
Then comes a time for reality.
Best of the Language Learning Web – 20 Great Links from March 2018
Let’s face it:
The Internet is big, very big…
A lot of good stuff on language learning is published every month… But—naturally—so is a lot of junk.
If you want to stay informed on the latest and best about language learning, you have two options at your disposal:
You can do it yourself…
And spend hours—with a crooked back—looking for gold in the sewer waste.
Or, you can let me do the dirty job for you.
Best of the Language Learning Web is my attempt to do just that.
The goal here, is to have last month’s best language learning links all in one pl
How to Sound Like an American When You’re Not – How Two ESL Learners Achieved Their American Accent
I have two friends (okay, maybe more than two but for the purposes of this article…).
One is from Jordan and one is from Germany.
They came to America as adults, and they have virtually no accent.
Yes, linguists will argue that everyone has an accent. What I’m saying here is that the way they speak—their word choice, syntax, intonation, and pronunciation—is a dead ringer for my born-and-bred American friends.
Not to mention both of them have an uncanny knowledge of American pop culture, which definitely helps their cause, but in any case…
I. AM. UTTERLY. FASCINATED.
Do you feel the same way?
