Archive for June, 2010
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Italian things you need
We’re coving the 10 most important things to know to get by in Italian. Last week, we looked at Italian greetings, at the common courtesies, and asking questions. This week, we’re going to start off with a look at things you will need….
4. Necessities
It’s impossible for me to list everything that a
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A language is like a city
Learning a new language is like moving to a new city. This analogy isn’t originally mine — I got it from the Word Collector blog — but I really love the idea, and I want to expand on it.
Learning a city
The average person grows up living in one city. You start out learning…
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Italian numbers
We’re coving the 10 most important things to know to get by in Italian. Last week, we looked at Italian greetings, at the common courtesies, and asking questions. This week, we started with things you will need, and now we’re going to talk about numbers.
5. Numbers
Strictly regarding the number of words to learn…
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BBC Languages
If you’re not already familiar with it, the BBC Languages web site is good online tool for language study and practice. It has many good resources to aid you along the way, and they’re available for several languages.
Here are some of the things you’ll find if you browse the BBC Languages page for Italian:…
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Italian directions
We’re coving the 10 most important things to know to get by in Italian. Last week, we looked at Italian greetings, at the common courtesies, and asking questions. This week, we started with things you will need, and we’ve covered numbers. Now we’re going to talk about directions.
6. Directions
Direction words tell you where…
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When and how to use зачем and почему
While studying Russian last year, I remember learning the word почему means “why” and then later learning the word зачем and that it also means “why”…. In the absence of a clear definition at the time, I just made the assumption that it’s a stylistic thing and started swapping them in use to try
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Things you need, in Lithuanian
In anticipation of a coming trip to Lithuania this fall, I wanted to learn a little about the language. I decided this would be a good opportunity for me to put my list of the 10 most important things to know, to get by in any language to the test.
We’ve already learned some Lithuanian…
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Basic Italian verbs
We’re coving the 10 most important things to know to get by in Italian. First, we looked at Italian greetings, at the common courtesies, and asking questions. Last week, we looked at things you will need, numbers, and directions.
7. Basic action verbs
There is an incredible amount of communication that can be done before…
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Inspiration and motivation from an actor
This post isn’t directly about language learning, but it’s about motivation and inspiration, which is applicable to all of us.
Will Smith is an incredibly inspirational man. The way he came up from nothing in Philadelphia, to become a world-famous rap star before he was out of high school is itself amazing. But everything he’s…
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Descriptive words in Italian
We’re coving the 10 most important things to know to get by in Italian. First, we looked at Italian greetings, at the common courtesies, and asking questions. Last week, we looked at things you will need, numbers, and directions. And this week we started with some basic Italian verbs. Today, we’ll look at some descriptive…