LingQ launched Korean yesterday. To this point there has been no content provided to the library. Given how many people wanted Korean, and the pressure for us to get going with it, I have to say I am disappointed. I hope some of the Korean keeners…
I was interviewed yesterday by a government funded language learning organization, which promotes the national language of a certain country, world wide. I was interviewed in that language. I did not mention LingQ, but rather spoke about language …
Next week we will launch Korean at LingQ, I think. If we do, and the chances are high, I intend to spend a fair amount of time on Korean, at least an hour a day, mostly listening for at least the next 6 months. I won’t drop my Russian and Portugue…
Purposeful listening enables me to enjoy household chores. Rather than having the radio on in the background, when I do household chores, I listen to interviews or audio books in the language that I am learning. I choose what to listen to. The con…
A British government official stated in the House of Commons that French is a useless language. He felt that British school kids should learn Mandarin and Arabic instead of French. It seems to me that no language is useless, and certainly not the …
I am following a discussion about e-learning on my English teachers listserv. Some of the teachers are interested in how to use the new technology and some are not. However, a common point seems to be that teaching and therefore learning should be…
How important is non-verbal communication in language learning? Not very important. It may be important in face to face communication between native speakers, but it plays a small part in language learning in my experience. In fact, verbal communi…
The Teacher’s associations of Ontario, the largest province in Canada, have announced that they will boycott student teachers from Nipissing University if that University decides to award an honourary degree to a former Prime Minister of Ontario, …
Teachers’ credentials are irrelevant to language learning in my view. A teacher needs to have strong verbal skills, be competent and have experience as a language learner and teacher. School administrators, and education authorities, and the teach…
I have two videos that I am trying to export from iMovie to youtube and I keep getting the following message “youtube reported an error”.Does anyone have any advice?Steve
