Spare the grammar
Here is a video on the issue of grammar, just to stoke the fire a little.
Here is a video on the issue of grammar, just to stoke the fire a little.
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…
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 …
Some arguments in favour of input. I am sure there are many more.We need to understand before we can speak. I would rather understand well and stumble when I speak than the reverse. If we can produce intelligible phrases and do not understand the …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I will try again. I have found the source of this video. Para toda la gente que entiende el Español y a quien le gusta leer.