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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


Make Mistakes! But Maybe Not These Ones in Spanish

January 06, 2014
by Nicki Benson
confidence, español, language play, vocabulary
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Volador Maya
Some Tips for Spanish Learners Ready to Take Risks It’s a new year and the time when many of us set new goals. Perhaps your goal is to learn a new language or to take the language you’re learning to the next level. If that’s the case, I encourage you to take some ris
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Six Months of Language, Learning, and Culture

December 23, 2013
by Nicki Benson
collaboration, communication, language resources, writing
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Bookshelf full of Books
A Journey in Multilingual Blogging On July 1st, 2013 we launched the Esperanza blog: Language, Learning, and Culture. Five women with a love for progressive language education, but different backgrounds and interests, came together to share their ideas. Today we have a growing archive
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Os colunistas e comentaristas do Brasil

December 20, 2013
by Yane Brogiollo
Brazil, learning on your own, português, self-directed learning, vocabulary
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Colunistas e comentaristas
Quem são eles Os nossos colunistas e comentaristas são profissionais respeitados em suas áreas de atuação que contribuem regularmente com os principais veículos de comunicação: jornais, revistas, rádio e televisão. Embora muitos sejam jornalistas de profissão, entre eles há também méd
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Beyond the Travel Guide

December 19, 2013
by Roma Ilnyckyj
gifts, literature, reading
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Christmas in China
Thoughts on giving to travellers My sister is travelling to Peru next summer, and for Christmas I want to get her something that will help her prepare for the journey. Books are always a go-to gift for me, but  when I browsed the travel section of my local bookstore all I saw were tra
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Holiday Traditions

December 18, 2013
by Heather Escobar
bilingual children, Canada, culture, tradition
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One Family, Two Cultures In a perfect world we would be able to balance our time evenly between Mexico and Canada, and we hope to achieve this in the next few years to ensure that our daughter continues to feel influenced by both languages and both cultures. This past weekend marked t
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Life in Translation Part 2 – New Verbs

December 17, 2013
by Mary Leighton
additional language, animals, learning on your own, vocabulary
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Living and Learning Turkish As I mentioned in the last blog post, I am doing new things in Turkey and as a result learning new Turkish expressions. This last week I have been volunteering for a farm and nature education program, and the new learning seems to have been dominated by new
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Rap to Save a Language

December 16, 2013
by Nicki Benson
bilingual children, collaboration, heritage languages, social justice
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Kukama Community
A Song by Kukama Children in Defense of their Native Language This video features a beautiful song and rap by the children of Nauta, Loreto in the Peruvian Amazon about saving their native language, Kukama-Kukamiria. The children go around removing the tape that covers each other̵
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Um projeto chamado Favela Painting

December 13, 2013
by Yane Brogiollo
Brasil, Brazil, collaboration, motivation, português, portuguese
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The Favela Painting Project
Qual o objetivo O projeto Favela Painting pretende pintar, com a participação da comunidade local, a fachada de todas as casas de uma favela da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Quais os benefícios Seus idealizadores acreditam que tornar o ambiente mais bonito vai atrair um olhar mais positiv
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Travel to China: Four-Month Countdown

December 12, 2013
by Roma Ilnyckyj
China, food, living abroad
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Chinese Dumplings and Vinegar
Dumplings, please! When I was living in Hefei as a student I wrote a Facebook post called “Things I haven’t eaten in almost a year and will delight in soon.” This was over five years ago, and the list includes some items that are baffling to me now (salami with mayo on rye bread…?), b
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The Beginnings of English Dominance

December 11, 2013
by Heather Escobar
bilingual children, español, heritage languages, parenting
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How can we maintain bilingual balance? It has already started. She hasn’t even entered Kindergarten yet and she is already speaking more English than Spanish. All of a sudden my house is full of English. I find myself thinking more in English, and now that both my wife and my da
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