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French Culture and Conversation
The best way to become confident and fluent in a language is total immersion for a good few months in a country where it is spoken. This is clearly impossible for most of us. But a good way of getting exposed to everyday French is through television. This is a link to the news section website of...
Memorable Mistakes
We often learn things well when we learn them through humour, and one essential of language learning is to be able to laugh at yourself and to see the funny side of your limitations and mistakes. Whilst there is no doubt that formal correction can create a memory in the brain, this process is...
Learning a Language Brings Self-Confidence
Since I have been living in the UK ( since 1997), the most common fact that I have heard from English people who have learnt French but don't dare speaking it is: " I can't speak French because I feel uncomfortable to sound rubbish but I can understand and read it better...." This is where, as a...
Helping My Child with Languages
Here are a few tips to help your child with French. This is geared mainly towards parents who have young children who are just beginning to learn French, but many of the tips can apply to children of all ages learning any language. 1. Start with the basic greetings for example in the morning,...
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Tips on French pronunciation.
One of the difficulties related to French pronunciation is that it is not a phonetic language. In a phonetic language each letter has a single corresponding sound and spelling matches pronunciation. French and English are not phonetic: they have letters that can be pronounced in different...
Improving your Listening Skills
One of the biggest challenges in language learning is making the leap from grammar exercises and worksheets to truly communicating with another person in a language that is not your mother tongue. If you want to improve your skills on your own so that you can make the most of your written and...
The Power of Language and Music
Language, via “la parole” is what makes us be what we are: human, as opposed to animal. The faculty to convey, via words, whatever we have in our mind is proper to human beings. Therefore, learning a language is more than just an optional act of leisure or self satisfaction, or at least, it...
Personalised Learning Assignment
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM PERSONALISED LEARNING Amélie Flies 20th of April 2009 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Personalised and independent learning in the official documentation 3. The concept of “personalised leaning” in the literature 4. The learning...