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Context, correction and custard tarts: What you can’t do with mobile learning

It started with a picture of a cake, and ended with reflections on mobile learning. Read on to find how I got here.

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What’s your mobile language learning strategy?

What an exciting weekend this was: 3 days full of language-related awesomeness at The Language Show! The inspiration will trickle down in links, blog posts and possibly much more – but today, here’s a post that sums up what I’ve seen, heard and thought of during the show. It’s big, it’s mobile – and it’s more personal than you might think.

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Podcasts in Language Learning: 3 Secrets of Success

When it comes to multimedia, performance and agility, you can do more with your mobile phone today than with your computer 15 years ago. Unfortunately, our philosophy and practice of using this technology still lags behind. It’s impossible to fix it all at once – but today, I want to focus on one aspect of modern tech which could really enhance your language learning: podcasts.

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Three Unlikely Applications to Supercharge Your Language Learning

Here at bravelearning.com, my inner geek is permanently at war with my inner technophobe. And this post is definitely going to be geeky: it’s tech and software through and through, although with a twist this time.

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A Billion Dollar Idea: Instagram and Language Learning

A huge sum of money makes you think. And when someone pays lots of money for something you considered useless, it makes you think even harder. So when I found out how much Facebook was ready to pay to acquire Instagram, I knew it was time for some serious thinking.

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How The New Kindle Could Flip Your Language Learning

There’s one issue in my home which, when mentioned, often turns into a heated debate: the “books vs. e-books” dilemma.