Language learning is often associated with professional advantages, but its impact goes far beyond the workplace. It’s a transformative journey that enriches your life, broadens your horizons, and fosters personal growth. Here’s how language learning transcends professional benefits and unlocks a world of new possibilities. Culture Cultural understanding is another significant aspect of language learning.… Continue reading Embrace a World of New Possibilities with Language Learning
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Beating Foreign Language Anxiety
Learning a foreign language is an exciting and enriching experience that opens doors to new cultures, people, and opportunities. However, for many language learners, there can be a common hurdle to overcome: foreign language anxiety. In this blog post, we’ll explore the concept of foreign language anxiety and provide practical tips to help you overcome… Continue reading Beating Foreign Language Anxiety
Harness the power of ChatGPT for Language Learning
ChatGPT has been one of 2023’s hot topics, but it’s important for us to go beyond the clickbait headlines and career-ending apocalyptic claims to understand what it can actually do to support language learners. In this post, we’ll take a look at how using ChatGPT for language learning can help achieve your language learning goals.… Continue reading Harness the power of ChatGPT for Language Learning
Great language learning tools to use with your students
As a language teacher, your role is to help your students on their language learning journey by providing engaging and effective lessons. One way to enhance your lessons is through the use of language learning tools that not only improve your students’ language skills but also make lesson preparation easier for you. In this post,… Continue reading Great language learning tools to use with your students
5 myths about learning foreign languages
Learning a new language can be an exciting and rewarding experience, but there are many misconceptions and myths about learning foreign languages and the language learning process. From the belief that it’s all about innate talent, or that language apps alone will make you fluent, these myths can be misleading and discouraging for language learners.… Continue reading 5 myths about learning foreign languages
Duolingo vs DuoCards
DuoCards and Duolingo are both popular language learning apps, but they have different features and purposes. In short, Duolingo offers a ‘competitive’ approach along a fixed path of set phrases, whereas DuoCards helps users memorize new vocabulary through the spaced-repetition of personalized flashcards. Read on, as we take a closer look at the differences between… Continue reading Duolingo vs DuoCards
Support learning with language learning apps
Though viewed by some language teachers as a gimmicky distraction and by others as another part of machine domination, language learning apps are tools that can help your students keep focus, discover new interests, and at the same time help you make better use of the lesson time. Differentiate activities Apps can cater to the… Continue reading Support learning with language learning apps
Five ways learning a language is like falling in love
With February 14th and St Valentine’s Day upon us once again, love is in the air and on the minds of many people. Learning a language and nurturing a romantic relationship share many similarities – both often start with initial flames of passion and desire, ultimately leading to a deeper, more complex appreciation and understanding… Continue reading Five ways learning a language is like falling in love
How to learn a new language without a teacher
With the range of tools freely available online and in the real world, learning a language by yourself is now easier than ever. Learning a language without a teacher means that you take complete responsibility for what you are learning and how you are learning it. This process is much more personal than, for example,… Continue reading How to learn a new language without a teacher
Spaced Repetition: The Most Powerful Way for Mastering Vocabulary
Do you remember cramming for exams, believing it was the best strategy to get you through? And do you remember forgetting almost everything shortly after the exam? Let’s say this strategy can be effective to pass a test but doesn’t help with long-term memory. Spaced repetition is not something that’s taught in schools and yet,… Continue reading Spaced Repetition: The Most Powerful Way for Mastering Vocabulary
