The books shown in the picture below arrived three days ago from Routledge, launching me into a state of linguistic euphoria. A Magnificent Pile of Routledge Language Books I’ve used Routledge books for a number of languages, but mostly…
I am a little sleep-deprived today, for which I blame Oliver Antosch and Wei Hsiang Lin, a husband-and-wife team whose UK-based company, Antosch & Lin, has a dozen different flashcard websites that kept me up way into the wee hours. …
To my New York City metropolitan area readers, this is a language-news bulletin for you. Brooklyn Bridge: Head on Over! On October 20th, you are invited to attend Foreign Language Hopscotch, a cool event in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and…
Sundays are bewildering, as are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, because so many choices are involved. I Struggled Between These This Morning Like: Italian or Portuguese or French? Then: book or audio lesson or flashcards? Then: which book,…
As I continue to review Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, and Italian for my New York City Marathon volunteering duties next month, I keep thinking that some languages seem oddly undiscriminating about how aesthetically pleasing things really are. The Marathon Signs…
Last Sunday I went to the Brooklyn language event I mentioned previously in this blog, Foreign Language Hopscotch. It was a three-hour language-learning extravaganza, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., covering more than 20 different languages through a series of half-hour…
I am far from expert on sound systems and headphones and all that, but I wanted to weigh in with the observation that sound quality really matters when you are trying to learn a language. Fuzziness obscures vowels and consonants…
Are you looking for something new in the world of theater? Philosophically opposed to shelling out a hundred bucks to see a mentally unstimulating Broadway show? The Theater of Language Well, a few years ago I mentioned in this blog…
In recent weeks I have had my first exposure to products from two different linguists with large reputations. Now posted on this site are reviews for both Learn Italian with Paul Noble and Start Portuguese with the Michel Thomas…
I volunteered for two different events as part of this year’s New York City Marathon, held last weekend. I have done this kind of thing a few times now, largely because I enjoy the language practice that this annual…
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