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Fortune is a crowd-funded drama series for English learners which has completed filming. What is the project? The main reason for the drama series “Fortune” is to aid the teaching of English. Because of that every episode has been filmed twice: at the levels A2 and B2 (based on the Common European Framework of Reference …
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The European Day of Languages was only a few days ago (you can read the article here), but that doesn’t mean that languages aren’t important today. We need languages to speak and to understand each other. Because of that there are also a lot of quotes about languages which could be very inspiring and good …
So this is the second part about tongue twisters in English. (The first part of the article you could read here.) Tongue twisters are a funny way to practice your language skills in English. They concentrate on the difficult sounds which could be – for a non-native English speaker – very hard to pronounce. So …
English tongue twisters are a great way to improve your pronunciation and to get more fluent in English. Sometimes they are very tricky and it needs a lot of time to pronounce them correctly. Tongue twisters are not only used by kids, but also by adults (for example by politicians, actors or public speakers) who …
Knowing the numbers is a very important thing in every language. The best thing is to learn the numbers from 0 to 100 because you need them very often. When do you need numbers? Paying things: If you want to pay something in the supermarket, in the restaurant oder somewhere else, you will always need …
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To learn a language means to learn in different ways. You should learn every day and also make mistakes. The first five tips you get in this article which was published two weeks ago: 5 tips to learn a foreign language – part 1. But there aren’t only five tips, there are more. For that …
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If you want to learn a foreign language, you need time. Time to learn new words, time to learn the grammar and also time to practise the conversation with native speakers. But you don’t have to learn always at home. Instead you could go out, meet friends or travel. There are a lot of things …
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Why everyone should study abroad You might say studying abroad is not for everyone. Personally I think you would be mistaken. Studying abroad has so many benefits that it’s an opportunity lost not to go. There are so many more benefits than just traveling to a foreign country and making new friends. So what’s …
Unusual or fun ways to learn a language Nowadays people usually don’t have the time to traditionally learn languages. Sitting down a couple of times a week with workbooks, a pen and a notebook just doesn’t seem to fit into our schedule any more. There are many fun and unusual ways to learn …
Don’t try so hard to learn a language This Time article presents an MIT study, which shows that trying hard to learn languages can actually make some aspects of the process more difficult. While children have better ability to master languages due to being adept in procedural memory, adults have stronger cognitive abilities, which …
