How Should Languages Be Taught in School?

How Should Languages Be Taught in School?

It’s not a good idea, in my opinion, to demand grammatical accuracy from language learners in school, because so few of them end up speaking the language. What does it matter whether they are able to nail niceties of grammar at the age of 12? To me, it doesn’t matter. If there’s some way of making them enjoy the process of language learning so that they expose themselves to the language, they develop some degree of comprehension, they develop a certain level of vocabulary, that’s good enough.

Why Many People Fail at Language Learning

Why Many People Fail at Language Learning

Right now I’ve been at my Arabic for three years and my Persian for two, I can’t say that I speak either language particularly well. I really struggle. My Farsi is now better. I’ve had the opportunity to use it a bit here and there around Vancouver, North Vancouver, especially West Vancouver. I’m now exploring Egypt in Arabic with Mohammed, my tutor, and I do struggle in our conversations, there is no question. But am I failing in the language?

What Is Literacy?

What Is Literacy?

We have literacy proliferation these days. I just Googled emotional literacy, physical literacy, health literacy, social literacy, and different kinds of literacy. I was amazed at what I found. So what is literacy? To me literacy…

I speak 20 languages

I've been learning languages for over 50 years and I've tried all kinds of approaches.

Get my 10 Free Secrets

Steve Kaufmann about LingQ

I have never learned as quickly or as enjoyably as I do now on LingQ.

Try LingQ Now
Available on All Platforms