How about the following possible dates for evening meet ups. Please let me if these work and who might be available. My schedule is still subject to change. Also any suggestions re hour and place would be appreciated. Or should we combine Nagoya a…
My lumber business takes me to Japan for the period January 17 to 26. I will be in Hokkaido, Akita, Nagoya, Osaka and Okayama. Details are being worked out. Is there any chance of meeting up with LingQers and other language keeners during that per…
Where can we find good Chinese content to listen to and read? I decided to have a look at what we have in our Chinese library at LingQ. Wow! Was I impressed when I found so many wonderful collections of Chinese content at all levels. Since our con…
I watched Russia beat Canada in the final of the World Junior Hockey Tournament today. With Canada in the lead, 3-0, I started to see the Canadians lose their focus and intensity. They never got it back. The Russians were able to increase their in…
I recently posted that I am aiming for between 500 and 1000 hours of listening to my foreign languages in 2011. Some people suggested that it is difficult to listen that much. This caused me to reflect on when I have listened in a concentrated tim…
I have launched a challenge on the LingQ Forum. I plan to listen to at least 500 hours of language this year, at first mostly Russian and Korean, and then eventually Czech, if we get it going at LingQ. I will also read transcripts of most of what …
I spent the last week at Big White a 5 hour drive from Vancouver.This is a family mountain and most accommodation is on the hill, real ski in and ski out. Usually there is lots of snow and sometimes poor visibility. This year we had three or four …
I received this email. If you are interested have a look at the video and tell me what you think. “Interview on Language Learning A friend of mine in South Korea recently produced a 12-minute video about language learning using a series of intervi…
I studied Korean for about 6 months about 4 or 5 years ago, and haven’t done much since. I tried to start up again last September but travels in Europe kind of got in the way. Now I have started again using the LingQ Beginner lessons in our librar…
At LingQ we often have people report errors in our content. These can be typos, misspelled words, incorrect usage by native speakers, strange accents, or whatever. We also occasionally have one native speaker pointing out that grammatical explanat…
