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…
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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, …
I normally say that non-natives speakers should stay away from swear words. They just do not realize how bad they can sound. Nang Pan has asked me if Russian and Arabic have particularly powerful swear words. I think they do but I am not a speaker…
On Wednesday I will start a 13 week radio program in Mandarin on Fairchild Radio 96.1 FM in Vancouver. I will try to encourage the many Mandarin speakers in Vancouver who need to improve their English and in most cases do not work on it in a conce…
