Monthly Archives: April 2010

Here is the podcast — @ WiseStamp Signature. Get it now Continue reading →

Here is a video on the issue of grammar, just to stoke the fire a little. Continue reading →

To move our discussion of grammar along, I have done a little podcast on the subject, since I am too lazy to write it all out. I will produce a transcript later and put it into the LingQ English library. Continue reading →

I regularly read about heritage language learners in North America. Who are they?Dos this term refer to someone whose parents speak another language at home, or also someone who comes from a home where one of the parents speaks another language? W… Continue reading →

There are two groups among language learners, the grammar lovers and the grammar haters. I would like to run a survey to find out which group is larger, at least among the readers of this blog. I would like your help in defining the two groups. I … Continue reading →

Khatzumoto speaks much better Japanese then I do, Deko tells me in a comment here. I saw a video of Khatzumoto speaking Japanese. He is excellent,casual, natural and it strikes me, as a non-native,that he is very native like. I am very impressed. … Continue reading →

In a comment to my recent post about how the first foreign language is the hardest to learn, Randy had this to say.”Wow, for once I actually agree with you. Indeed, in my experience with languages, Spanish is among the absolute easiest to learn. H… Continue reading →

I am often asked which language was hardest to learn. In a way I guess I should say it was Chinese, with all the characters and the four tones etc. Yet I learned to read books and newspapers and speak on a variety of subjects in less than a year. … Continue reading →

I wanted to feature these comments from Jean-Paul on the issue of speaking like a native. I am interested in your comments. I largely agree with Jean-Paul on this.( Getting close to a native accent means) Immersing oneself, plunging deeply and irr… Continue reading →

I mentioned my son Eric’s new book, “Shall the Shall Inherit the Earth”, in a previous post. Here is a video presentation of the main arguments of the book. Continue reading →