At a recent panel discussion on local Mandarin TV I made the point (once again) that language is key to work place success for immigrants. Lawrence Wang, immigrant lawyer felt that this was an unrealistic expectation. He felt that the mainstream e…
This is from a learner at The Linguist To learn better at The Linguist, I always explore ways to improve my English. This week I practiced in the Pronounce section, which I hardly used in the past. I never learned phonetic symbols, so I did not th…
I have always believed that repetitive listening and reading of interesting content helps to reinforce learning of words and phrases. This is especially true if the repetitive reading and listening is combined with a systematic approach to reviewi…
I was visiting antimoon and came across a reference to the Natural Approach to language learning which took me to a very interesting site about natural language learning. http://maxpages.com/thena The assumption is that the student should spend th…
Something I wrote recently on language learning: I believe that the most important thing for language learning is a lot of exposure to the language, spoken and written. This exposure should take place in the form of content that is interesting and…
My advice to both students is to join The Linguist. I’ve been to Los Angeles to take some English classes, in order to take the TOEFL exam, I’ve just come back and I wanna review my expirience. First of all I have to say I’ve been “studying” engli…
The Linguist Club is a free area in The Linguist. The Linguist Club has limited content and limited functionality. The Linguist Club does not provide tutoring, English conversation or writing correction services. It does, however, give an idea of …
I just spoke on the telephone with one of our learners in Vancouver. He is a former research scientist from China (Harbin) who drives a fork lift in a fish packing plant in Vancouver. He has been on our system for 10 days and has saved over 300 wo…
The Linguist Challenge This Challenge is only available for residents of B.C and is carried out in conjunction with the period of the radio program. it is especially conceived to encourage more recent immigrants to look at new ways to continue imp…
A very interesting comment from ESL learner here below to which I would like to respond here. First let me say that every language is worth learning, whether spoken by a few people or by many. Nevertheless, at certain times and in certain places, …
