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Monthly Archives: August 2005
All the grammar you need to know
To speak English well you need to learn how words are used and how they come together to form phrases and sentences. Only a lot of listening and reading can help you learn this. You need to train yourself to notice how the words are used when you … Continue reading
Learner’s views, from another website
My advice to both students is to join The Linguist. I’ve been to Los Angeles to take some English classes, in order to take the TOEFL exam, I’ve just come back and I wanna review my expirience. First of all I have to say I’ve been “studying” engli… Continue reading
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The Linguist Club and The Linguist Challenge
The Linguist Club is a free area in The Linguist. The Linguist Club has limited content and limited functionality. The Linguist Club does not provide tutoring, English conversation or writing correction services. It does, however, give an idea of … Continue reading
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constant improvement without perfection
The following exchange was from our Forum at The Linguist. It might be of interest. Question from Daniel Lautenbach, Germany. “I think all of the above mentioned articles are very good. They explain the usage and the value of each single step of T… Continue reading
It makes it all worthwhile
I just spoke on the telephone with one of our learners in Vancouver. He is a former research scientist from China (Harbin) who drives a fork lift in a fish packing plant in Vancouver. He has been on our system for 10 days and has saved over 300 wo… Continue reading
Fusion
A few nights ago my wife and I invited some friends. One couple were originally Chinese, one from Hong Kong and his wife from Taiwan. Their favourite country to visit was Italy, for the wine the food and the ambiente. The other two couples were of… Continue reading
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Anne of Green Gables phrases
For the purposes of my radio program I am going to underline useful phrases from the following text of Anne of Green Gables. You find this text both in the Main Linguist Library and in the limited Linguist Club Library. You can listen to the text … Continue reading
e-learning
I am struck by the opposition to e-learning from within educational institutions in Canada. Rather than seeing e-learning as an opportunity to provide education of various kinds to a broader range of people than can be accommodated in institutions… Continue reading
The Linguist Challenge
The Linguist Challenge This Challenge is only available for residents of B.C and is carried out in conjunction with the period of the radio program. it is especially conceived to encourage more recent immigrants to look at new ways to continue imp… Continue reading
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To ESL learner on confidence
A very interesting comment from ESL learner here below to which I would like to respond here. First let me say that every language is worth learning, whether spoken by a few people or by many. Nevertheless, at certain times and in certain places, … Continue reading
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Ling Test 1 