(see here Introduction to the Tunisian Stories and Overview) Once upon a time, there was a tailor sewing in his shop. A woman selling jam passed him by, so he bought an ounce from her. He had some bread in his shop that he cut in two and spread the jam on one half to…
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Every culture and every society has its stories. The Grimm brothers, Charles Perrault, Božena Němcová and others have collected and written down the fairy tales and stories of their countries. These often somehow have some things in common and also differ in interesting nuances. This also applies to Tunisia but with the exception that these…
Everyone knows that you need to pronounce difficult sounds when learning a language – at least most of the time. If I am learning English as a German speaker, there are sounds that I don’t know and need to learn. For example, in German there is no dental fricative sound (that is, pronounced between the…
This is really funny. The guy is genious and very honest. He speaks in different accents of the UK, Ireland, US, Australian, South Africa and India as well as with Italian, Chinese, Japanese and, for us important, French (4:45) and German (5:00). Enjoy!
We’ve seen that GPA has big advantages. Again and again I read about new insights of language learning experts for language school teaching that are fully or nearly identical with GPA thoughts (see here: https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/can-we-learn-second-language-we-learned-our-first). But, there are some things that make learning with the GPA method more complicated. Or better said, some assumptions and…
Well, honestly, this is not fair! See here why English is not a Germanic language 100% but they compare with French, English, Italian and Spanish … But, still very funny, even for Germans!
Out of the masses of language learning methods, we picked one that we see as the best to really learn a language, especially if you live in country and if you can put a lot of time and energy into language learning (see here for Chris’ his overview). Nevertheless, this method has two major disadvantages…
Very interesting and provoking video: Over 2000 comments!
There are several people on the web to whom a phrase like this is attributed: „You can speak 20 languages – but if you cut yourself you speak your mother tongue!“ Of course, that’s true. The mother tongue is the main language of a person, his or her language of the heart. This will not…