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Duolingo

Duolingo: Language Learning, Gamified

January 17, 2014
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A Great Supplement for Language Learners My partner, Gabe, is here with me in Peru. He had never studied Spanish before coming here and enrolled in classes when we first arrived. But the classes were too expensive for us to maintain long-term so Gabe has had to find other ways to impr
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Volador Maya

Make Mistakes! But Maybe Not These Ones in Spanish

January 06, 2014
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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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Colunistas e comentaristas

Os colunistas e comentaristas do Brasil

December 20, 2013
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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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Life in Translation Part 2 – New Verbs

December 17, 2013
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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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Life in Translation

December 10, 2013
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Turkish vocabulary notes = a pretty good journal When I arrived in Turkey almost three weeks ago, I already spoke enough Turkish to get around and have familiar conversations. But there were, and still are, huge gaps in my vocabulary, especially since I am in Turkey in a new season fo
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The Poetry of Turkish Reciprocal Verbs

November 26, 2013
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Learning a new language and rethinking the old Among the many pleasures of learning a new language is rethinking the meaning of words in your own language. As I wander back into the world of Turkish, I am reminded of this. I am especially interested in the reciprocal verbs, which we d
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Word Reference Logo

My Favourite Online Dictionary

November 25, 2013
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The Wonder of WordReference What is it? WordReference.com is a great set of online dictionaries to translate between English and fifteen other languages. It also has dictionaries for Spanish-French and Spanish-Portuguese, as well as verb conjugators and games for several languages. It
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Peruvian Flag

Peruvian Spanish

November 11, 2013
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Everyday Spanish Words with a Peruvian Twist Spanish is spoken a little differently in each country, as I explain here. I have lived in Mexico and Spain, and travelled to various countries throughout Central and South America. Now I live in Peru and I have noticed that Peruvians use c
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Gibraltar

Intro to Arabic via Place Names

October 15, 2013
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Good at geography? Then you already know some Arabic 1. Medina = ‘city’ This city of Medina in Saudi Arabia is considered to be the second holiest city in Islam after Mecca. In Arabic, medina just means ‘city’. In some cities, though, people say medina to speci
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Climbing in Spanish

October 08, 2013
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Eek! I have no vocabulary! This weekend I traveled to El Chorro (“the Spurt”) in southern Spain to do some rock climbing. Two days before I went, I realized that I knew very little Spanish climbing vocabulary. Communication between climbing partners is important, and often
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