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

Thoughts on Made-Up Transliteration How would you spell German numbers? 1 – Ayn 2 – Swayn 3 – Dry 4 – Fier 5 – Fünf 6 – Sex 7 – Zibın 8 – Ahkt 9 – Noyn 10 – Tin Emrah, a Turkish guy who also speaks English, wrote this list wi

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