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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


Self-Directed Language Learning and “Progress”

August 20, 2013
by Mary Leighton
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Arabic School Tetouan, Morocco
Letting go of grades and levels A tutoring client recently asked me how to structure his learning of Turkish. He reads language books, writes grammar exercises, and watches YouTube videos, but he worries that this is too scattered and messy. “I can’t tell if I am making pr
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Travel Favourites: Cuba

August 19, 2013
by Nicki Benson
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Havana Street View
My Introduction to Latin America This is the first part in a series about my favourite things about some of the countries I’ve traveled to. The views expressed in these posts are completely subjective but I will give an explanation of my choices so that you might determine whether or
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A história da feijoada brasileira

August 16, 2013
by Yane Brogiollo
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A feijoada brasileira
Photo by Elisa Paixão A feijoada – um prato típico da culinária brasileira Assim como a música e outros aspectos artísticos e culturais, a culinária de um país retrata muito da sua história. Para os estudantes da língua portuguesa, que sejam também admiradores de delícias culinárias,
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The Unanswered, Volume 2: English Essay, English Mind?

August 15, 2013
by Roma Ilnyckyj
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Computer Keyboard
Academic writing and my failure to grasp a learnable moment The question. My first job out of grad school was at a Chinese-Canadian partnership university. I taught academic writing, and for many of my students it was their first time writing essays in English. One day a student send
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Books for Bilingual Children

August 14, 2013
by Heather Escobar
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Reading in Second Language to Achieve Bilingual Goals Books, like music, in your child’s second language are great resources to support your bilingual action plan . And  my 4 year old, like most children, loves all books. My wife attended a program with the Canucks Family Educat
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5 More Reasons to Love Turkish

August 13, 2013
by Mary Leighton
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Turkish Lessons with Esperanza Education
If you looked at 5 Reasons to Love Turkish you will remember that Turkish is a wonderful language to learn: it impresses native and non-native speakers alike, it is easy to pronounce, its words are generally short and memorable, and it designates no gender to nouns, or even to pronoun
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Spanish Dialect and Slang Varieties

August 12, 2013
by Nicki Benson
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Che chevere
Fun and Frustration with the Spanish Language Like other global languages, there are many different varieties of Spanish spoken throughout the world. While the general structure of the language doesn’t change too much from one country to the next, the accents and especially the
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Conheça um pouco mais sobre a música popular brasileira

August 09, 2013
by Yane Brogiollo
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Música popular brasileira
Música, instrumento de aprendizagem Acredito que uma das mais divertidas formas de estudar uma segunda língua seja através da música. É também uma estratégia muito poderosa. A música retrata a cultura, a história e as crenças do seu povo. E mais do que a gramática e uma pronúncia perf
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Solace in the Stacks

August 08, 2013
by Roma Ilnyckyj
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Vancouver Public Library Central Branch
A love letter to public libraries One of my favourite shows, Fringe, is filmed in Vancouver, and one of the fun things about watching it is pointing out all the places I recognize. One of the most distinctive is the central library, which in the show acts as an alternate-universe Frin
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Spanish Music for Kids

August 07, 2013
by Heather Escobar
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Resources for Raising Bilingual Children: Music I thought I’d take a break from musing about raising a bilingual child and talk about some resources that our family has used. Our daughter absolutely adores the library, I think it comes second only to the park in the list of fun
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