Linguisticator's Blog
Mining Dialogues for Variation
Following on from a previous post about understanding adjacency pairs and the usefulness of language-learning dialogues, I thought I'd share some strategies for using dialogues to arrive at the kind...
Mining Dialogues for Variation
Following on from a previous post about understanding adjacency pairs and the usefulness of language-learning dialogues, I thought I'd share some strategies for using dialogues to arrive at the kind...
The Arabic Numeral System
Numbers in Arabic. Wow.The way languages represent numbers is a fascinating topic in itself. The numbers 1-3 inflect for gender and case in Icelandic; the word hundrað in Old English...
The Arabic Numeral System
Numbers in Arabic. Wow.The way languages represent numbers is a fascinating topic in itself. The numbers 1-3 inflect for gender and case in Icelandic; the word hundrað in Old English...
Intercultural Communicative Competence
It is possible to study a language for years, have a vocabulary of several thousand words, and yet still flounder on your first interaction with a native speaker of that...
Intercultural Communicative Competence
It is possible to study a language for years, have a vocabulary of several thousand words, and yet still flounder on your first interaction with a native speaker of that...
Online German Course Expanded
We recently added more than 60 new video lessons to our online German course to cover more topics and make certain challenging aspects of the grammar clearer. I'm very pleased...
Online German Course Expanded
We recently added more than 60 new video lessons to our online German course to cover more topics and make certain challenging aspects of the grammar clearer. I'm very pleased...
The Disconnect Between Subtitling and Dubbing
Subtitling videos is far more complicated than it seems like it should be. Anyone who has ever subtitled a video knows how time-consuming and challenging it can be. Subtitling our...
The Disconnect Between Subtitling and Dubbing
Subtitling videos is far more complicated than it seems like it should be. Anyone who has ever subtitled a video knows how time-consuming and challenging it can be. Subtitling our...
Unknowns Kill Motivation
Most of the time, I would rather climb a mountain whose peak I can see than a hill whose summit is shrouded in fog.When you know what you're getting into,...
Unknowns Kill Motivation
Most of the time, I would rather climb a mountain whose peak I can see than a hill whose summit is shrouded in fog.When you know what you're getting into,...