Posts Tagged ‘books’
May
May
The first book you read in a foreign language
If you’ve been doing the LiveMocha, it’s likely that you’ve finished by now. And if you haven’t been doing it — either because your language isn’t offered, or because you just don’t like LiveMocha — you’re even more likely to need some new materials. And if you’re not already done with LiveMocha at this point, it’s probably time to be done anyway. It’s an excellent free resource for getting you started in a language, but it’s not good enough to get you to the next level.
May
May
Language is music!
Last week, it was my great honor to receive a copy of Language is Music…, a captivating book written by Susanna Zaraysky, about learning languages that seemed to steal the thoughts from my head and the feelings from my heart and pour them all out far more succinctly than I ever could.
About the
Sep
Sep
The book is dead, long live the book!
I’ve had my Kindle for a few weeks now, and I’ve used it in a lot of ways, both conventional and nonconventional, and I think I’m ready to report what I’ve learned and form some opinions about this device.…
Jan
Jan
The haphazard construction of the human mind
I recently finished reading Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind… by Gary Marcus. It’s an entire book written just about the brain and how it works, so as you can imagine there’s a lot of information in there to help learners. The book even contains an entire chapter about language.
Marcus repeatedly uses
Jan
Jan
Babel No More
When I recently received a copy of the new book Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners…, by Michael Erard, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. A few other language bloggers have recently commented on the book, and while I tried to ignore their comments in order to