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Where’s Your Soap-Box? Spoken Word Poetry in Foreign Languages

Today, it’s personal. I’m sharing my biggest passion with you, and I’ve got reasons.

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Four Ways to Learn a Language With “Game Of Thrones”

There were very few TV shows which, in recent years, would make me wish I had TV at home. “Game Of Thrones” is one of them.

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Forget The App For That: 5 Low Tech Language Learning Tools To Use Now

Okay, we’ve all been there, and I’m no exception. Your new project, or a new idea for doing something – becomes, if unchecked, an excuse to buy a ton of stuff and gadgets. These do two damaging things to your plan, whatever it is: firstly, they damage your budget – and secondly, they give you a pillar to hide behind and avoid doing real work (Hugh MacLeod has more here – read it!).

Fear not, power learners. Today we come back to the tried and true – to five tools so basic, you may have forgotten they existed. And we’ll look at how best to use them in language learning. Get ready for a blast from the past!

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Write Right: 5 Steps To Awesome Language-Learning Notes

Let's paraphrase Homer Simpson: "Taking bad notes is the first step to failure."

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.

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