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Gothic for Goths!
If you've ever wanted to learn a little Gothic, but wading though Wulfilas' Bible translations wasn't where you wanted to start, boy is there a site for you!Gothic for Goths is a handful of youtube...
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Tell me a story...
The other day, I wrote about using bilingual texts to get to know bits of a language the same way a child comes to know the content of a story book. There's another possibility, of course, and that's...
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Getting Language Back
The other day, I needed a flashlight. Sure enough, the batteries in my regular one were dead. I did have another flashlight, one of those models where you turn a crank to charge the built in battery. I...
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Wanting to Speak / Wanting to Learn
In my last post, I commented:Now might be an amusing time to review last year’s resolutions...I decided to do just that. Now, last year I set intentions, not resolutions, and I think I'm sticking with...
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Irritated by Sanskrit Translators/Beginning to see Thomson's Point
A while back, I wrote about Karen Thomson's quest to rescue Vedic Sanskrit from the Indologists. This week, I got hold of the lyrics to Rasa's "Prabhupada-padam." It turns out they are from a poem in...
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2010 Intentions/Resolutions
Last year, I set New Year's Intentions, rather than resolutions. This year, I'm sticking with that, but with one added element: Jumping off points.The problem with New Year's Resolutions, of course, is...
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If you're curious about Latin...
... but just want a little idea what it's all about, here's a three-step program that can be done in less than a month:1) Do this C J Cherryh Latin course - 8 lessons, all rather short - and learn how...
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Hypnosis and Language Learning - A Different Twist
A little while ago, there was a post at HTLAL about hypnosis and language learning called A Relaxing Approach to Language Learning. Notes the author: [I]t suddenly occurred to me that listening to some...
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Phrasebooks, stock phrases and intermediate language learning
... plus a hypnosis follow-upA while ago, on HTLAL, I ran across a reference to Spanish for Travelers by Lewis Robins. Apparently, the for Travelers books are just about impossible to find. I got one...
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Intentions Update and a new approach for comprehensible input
We're a little over halfway through the month, so why not take a look at whether it's possible to stick to one's intentions for at least two weeks...This January, I have actually dug into Spanish,...
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Reviewing with Michel Thomas; Haitian Creole
Readers of this site know that I've been running through Michel Thomas Spanish for the second time. In fact, I'm halfway through disc 8 now and will finish it tomorrow. I hadn't done Michel Thomas...
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Sad News for Language Program Junkies
A bit of sad news for language lovers out there. After years in business, AudioForum is shutting down February 10th. Prior to the internet and amazon.com, the audio-forum catalog was a wonder to...
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Keeping Resolutions, and an update
Making resolutions/setting intentions is easy at New Year's. Especially if you've had enough bubbly and are feeling really good about the world. But the follow-through is harder. The most common...
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Assimil-ating non-Assimil materials
In my last post, I mentioned that I'd been playing around with an idea similar for getting similar benefits to the Assimil programs out of non-Assimil books. Today, I'd like to look at what I've been...
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Michel Thomas - Can he still be your teacher?
I'm about halfway through the my Michel Thomas Italian review, and have noticed a few things. For one thing, he doesn't irritate me nearly as much as he used to. I remember the first time I did the...
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Fumbling Toward Polyglottery
This week, I've been sort of scattered, language learning wise. Part of this ties into language learning goals. And part of it, let's be frank, ties into ego.I've always enjoyed dabbling with a number...
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Na'vi and simpler approaches to language learning
Since Tolkien, I've been intrigued by conlangs, though not enough to actually learn one. I'm leaning the same way on Na'vi, the language of the blue people in the movie Avatar. However, I'm impressed...
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Can Michel Thomas still be your teacher, revisited
The other day, I wrote about whether Michel Thomas could still be your teacher, in a manner of speaking, if instead of trying to simply understand material, you tried to get a sense for how he would...
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Instructor Focused Teaching, Michel Thomas & Uzbek!
Last week, I noted that I was thinking about what a Michel Thomas Uzbek course would look like, and promised to post some thoughts. In the intervening time, I have got hold of Solity's The Learning...
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Who's in charge of Your language learning?
Doviende at Language Fixation has a very nice post on one of the hardest parts of language learning: Actually doing something! As he says, we have choices in life, and the choices we make have a real...
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