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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


Language Learning Opportunities All Around You

April 09, 2014
by Adam Samuel
culture, español, learning on your own, vocabulary
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Shipyard Doorbell
Abre los ojos A guest post by fellow language educator, Adam Samuel. My tri-weekly run usually takes me past the fish auction house and past the salt fields Las Salinas in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, where I live, right in the south of Spain and roughly an hour from Morocco. Depending on t
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Os falsos amigos estão por aí

April 07, 2014
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, cultura, culture, português
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Os falsos amigos
É muito comum que estudantes de uma segunda língua tenham que conviver com os falsos amigos. Eu, confesso, sou sempre “desafiada” por um bando deles. Tenho que tomar muito cuidado ao me expressar em inglês, caso contrário os falsos amigos me passam a perna. Sem qualquer piedade. Enten
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Embracing the Microtrip

April 04, 2014
by Roma Ilnyckyj
Canada, day trips, living abroad, Vancouver
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Vancouver's West End
Urban adventuring is my favourite kind of day trip I leave for China in about two weeks (!), and it’ll be my biggest trip in three years. Three years without a major trip feels like a long time, but in the past couple of years I’ve enjoyed a different kind of travel: the urban m
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Respecting the Ñ‬ in English

April 02, 2014
by Heather Escobar
alphabet, communication, technology, writing
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What’s does that squiggly line do? At the beginning of the year Nicole wrote about making mistakes in Spanish and how forgetting a little squiggly mark can drastically change the meaning of a word. The little squiggly line, called a tilde, is used in Spanish to make the letter ñ
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Lang-8 : Free Writing Help in Your L2

March 31, 2014
by Mary Leighton
collaboration, language resources, technology, writing
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Lang 8 Social Language Learning Platform
An online community to correct your target language writing I just registered for Lang-8 a few days ago, and I’m impressed with this website/social platform. It is a genius idea and ripe for our interconnected world: connect a bunch of people from different first languages and l
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15 Photos from Rural Peru

March 28, 2014
by Nicki Benson
animals, cultura, culture, living abroad, Peru
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Embroidered Skirts Cusco
A Truly Intercultural Experience For the last 10 days, I have been back in the Cusco region of Peru to present the preliminary results of the research I participated in with UNICEF on Intercultural Bilingual Education. We have been back to the five schools in remote communities that w
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Copa do Mundo 2014 – Brasil

March 26, 2014
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, esporte, futebol, português, soccer, sport
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Brazil Soccer Fans
Prepare o seu coração… Está chegando a hora! Há menos de oitenta dias para o início da Copa do Mundo 2014, certamente o coração dos fãs de futebol já bate num ritmo mais acelerado. Também na mesma sintonia estão os atletas participantes. E os organizadores. E os milhares de prof
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Thoughts From a Non-Bilingual Canadian

March 24, 2014
by Roma Ilnyckyj
bilingualism, Canada, language education
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Canadian Flag
Why don’t I speak French? When I travel and people find out I’m Canadian, I often get asked if I speak French. And when I say no, I’m often met with disbelief or puzzlement. How can you not speak French?—it’s a official language of your country! How can I not speak French? IR
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Music in Spanish: Ana Tijoux

March 21, 2014
by Heather Escobar
culture, language resources, listening, music
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Hip-hop and Social Justice I first heard French-Chilean hip hop artist Ana / Anita Tijoux rapping on Julieta Venegas‘ 2007 #1 song “Eres Para Mí” (You are for Me) when she first broke into the world of latin pop after ten years as the female MC of the Chilean hip-hop
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Synonym pile-up

March 19, 2014
by Mary Leighton
additional language, learning on your own, vocabulary
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Turkish Lessons with Esperanza Education
The problem with more words As I learn more words in Turkish, I am encountering an unexpected problem: choosing which word to use. Back in the true beginner days, I was ecstatic to have any word that might convey meaning. Now I am almost wary of learning synonyms, because I often end
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