Monthly Archives: September 2010

I posted some pictures on my recent visit to Le Havre in the French LingQ community page at Facebook for those who are interested. I like this part of France, although it is often cloudy and windy. But then it was the home of several of the impres… Continue reading →

Today The Change Blog ran an article I wrote on how the iPad will change education. Have a read if you are interested. Continue reading →

As I prepare to depart for Europe, my itinerary is slowly taking shape.Sept 25-29 France on wood industry software related businessSept 30-Oct 3 CLIL Conference in Eichstaett Oct 6-16 Conferences on Language Learning in various towns in Northern P… Continue reading →

I received the following interesting request via Facebook. If you have the time please do the survey. I did.”Hello, nice to meet you, we don’t know each other directly, I am Stefano Besana an Italian researcher at Catholic University of MilanI was… Continue reading →

This is the first of 6 videos of my recent presentation. The rest are in at my youtube channel. Continue reading →

We are starting a series of LingQ community pages on Facebook. Why not drop by?Chinese LingQ where I dropped a message about the lecture I listened to last night by Shu Yi, son of Lao She, about Chinese culture.English LingQ where I just posted a … Continue reading →

Here is a financial statement for Rosetta Stone over four years ending Dec 31 2009. I find it interesting to see that they report spending almost 70 million dollars on Research and Development! I have not been able to find similar information on L… Continue reading →

Which is better Livemocha or Rosetta Stone? Here is a comparison, in what looks like a Livemocha news release. Continue reading →

2.8 million dollars is going to be spent on researching bilingualism. I wonder what the benefits will be. Continue reading →

Here is an article about the concept that kids learn languages in chunks and that second language acquisition can be done in the same way. I feel that learning phrases is an important part of language learning, but I still come down to individual … Continue reading →