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Language, Learning, and Culture

Welcome to the Esperanza Education blog! Here you will find regular posts from our teachers that explore diverse aspects of language, learning, and culture. We share our experiences as language learners and teachers, tips and resources for learning specific languages, travel and cultural advice, and more. We are a diverse group, each with our own interests and background, so expect to find an eclectic selection of entries. Enjoy! Disfruta! Amusez-vous! Divirta-se! Tadını çıkar! !التمتع به


Raising a Bilingual Child: Returning to Oaxaca

July 14, 2014
by Heather Escobar
bilingual children, culture, Family, Mexico, multicultural kids
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Going back home to Oaxaca I just got back from two weeks in Oaxaca and after a two and a half year absence it was comforting to go back. My wife and daughter are staying an extra ten days to spend more time with family. All three of us felt overwhelmed by emotion and excitement and al
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The African Storybook Project

July 07, 2014
by Nicki Benson
bilingual children, collaboration, language resources, technology
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African Storybook Project
Multilingual Literacy through Stories I have written before about the importance of educating children in their first language. In Peru, I worked with schools that promote Intercultural Bilingual Education for indigenous children, teaching them literacy skills in their first language
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Intro to Language Exchange

June 30, 2014
by Mary Leighton
additional language, language exchange, tandem
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Yusuf Turkish Language Exchange Partner
We need to make friends in order to learn This topic is near to my heart – language exchange, also known as tandem language learning. After years of studying, many people fail to become comfortable in a new language. This is because we are thinking about learning in a backwards way: t
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Poesia brasileira

June 23, 2014
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, cultura, culture, português
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Obra de Elida Tessler
Alguns dos meus poemas favoritos em português Poesia. Eu adoro poesia. Dores, amores, intimidades. Aqui, mostro um pouquinho da nossa poesia. Delicie-se enquanto aproveita para ampliar o seu vocabulário! Retrato Eu não tinha este rosto de hoje, Assim calmo, assim triste, assim magro,
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Visiting Oaxaca: Mezcal and Cerveza at Txalaparta

June 16, 2014
by Heather Escobar
culture, food, Mexico, music, Oaxaca
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Big city nightlife in a small town Oaxaca is small compared to other Mexican cities like DF Guadalajara or Monterrey, but its rich culture is just as obvious at night as it during the day. Local and national live bands and DJs, karaoke, juke boxes and cantinas, Oaxaca has it all. Toda
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It gets better

June 09, 2014
by Mary Leighton
additional language, learning on your own, motivation
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Urfa Landscape
Learning a language? Keep going. Hello from the frontier of what I think they call ‘intermediate’ in language learning. Maybe prompted by the change in geography–last week I moved from the dry yellow plains of Mesopotamia to the green mountains of Eastern Anatolia–I recogn
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The Power of the Podcast

June 06, 2014
by Adam Samuel
language resources, learning on your own, listening
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Audiobooks
Podcasts are Great… Especially for Language Learners A guest post by fellow language educator, Adam Samuel. Podcasts are audio files, mainly consisting of spoken word content on numerous topics that can be downloaded directly onto a computer or transportable media device, such as an i
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Bye Bye Sampa!

June 04, 2014
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, cultura, culture, português
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Oca Museu da Cidade de São Paulo
Esta é a minha última semana por aqui. Na próxima sexta-feira embarco para Vancouver. Foram dias gostosos revendo a família e os amigos. Cercada de carinho. Momentos doces. Compartilhando lembranças, comidinhas e risadas. Deixarão saudades. São Paulo, carinhosamente chamada de Sampa,
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Goodbye, 再见, and до побачення

June 02, 2014
by Roma Ilnyckyj
confidence, language education, writing
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Final Blog Post
My final post for Esperanza I have been writing for this blog for just shy of a year, and my words here have been the first that I’ve really let go into the universe. Writing on the internet is scary; anyone (anyone!) can read it, love it, hate it, comment on it, ignore it, shar
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Visiting Oaxaca: Puerto Escondido

May 30, 2014
by Heather Escobar
Mexico, Oaxaca
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Carrizalillo Beach, Puerto Escondido
Oaxaca’s Pacific Coast Recently I have been dreaming about my favourite beach, I cannot wait to be there in a month. I realized that it is almost impossible to write about visiting the wonderful state of Oaxaca without mentioning its gorgeous coastlines. Puerto Escondido, a town
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