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#Portuguese365 Update 6: fast and flexible language learning?

language study muscle, how to get fast and flexible language learning?My one-year adventure with studying Portuguese is becoming a more grown-up thing now: I need to fit language study around my work! Doing this requires good time management but also (crucially for polyglot wannabes) setting priorities. So how to get your foreign language habit alongside your busy life?

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iBooks Author For Languages: 3 Guerrilla Ideas

We’ve had an uneasy relationship, Apple and me. I went from ridiculing every iPod owner to proudly taking my MacBook everywhere I went, only to wonder at the utter uselessness of some of its later incarnations.

But I still know a good idea when I see one. And today, I want to discuss one of those – although probably not the way Apple would like to see it discussed.

Enter iBooks Author.

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Write Right: 5 Steps To Awesome Language-Learning Notes

Whenever I see new language students in my school anxiously clutching their brand-new notebooks, I cry a little.

Many of these notebooks will be totally useless by the time the course is halfway through. Some of them will be half-decent, but never used in any meaningful way. And even the good ones, the ones used often, will be forgotten by the time the course is over.

This is sad. But it doesn’t have to be. Read on and you will find how you can do better.