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What is a heritage language learner?

I regularly read about heritage language learners in North America. Who are they?Dos this term refer to someone whose parents speak another language at home, or also someone who comes from a home where one of the parents speaks another language? W…

Grammar lovers and grammar haters

There are two groups among language learners, the grammar lovers and the grammar haters. I would like to run a survey to find out which group is larger, at least among the readers of this blog. I would like your help in defining the two groups. I …

My review of “fluent in three months”

In the last in this series on input focus versus output focus, here is my review of Benny’s website. I believe that this whole exercize is not about Benny and Steve, but about the relative weight of input and output in language learning. I hope th…

Using LingQ for Korean

I am looking forward to getting a new language at LingQ, and while I voted for Czech, I will be very happy to get Korean, ecstatic in fact. Developing content and making sure it all works well will be a chore. If we have enthusiastic Korean learne…

Heading back home

It is early morning here in Vienna, and it looks as if my flight to Frankfurt is on schedule. From there I hope to fly on to Vancouver. My ticket from Canada was based on Vienna as the returning point, but our meeting in Vienna was canceled. We st…

Karl XII of Sweden

While in Sweden I am listening to the audio book biography of Charles XII of Sweden, Carolus Rex, read by Bjoern Granath. While jogging in the early morning at Talleberg, overlooking lake Siljans, amongst the old and typical Dalecarlian deep red c…

We don’t just learn in school

I will be adding more comments from Spitzer as and when I have time and access to the internet. I am sitting here in Mora, Sweden about to go and visit two sawmills.Spitzer stresses throughout his book that the human brain learns all the time, fro…

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