[CW] When some people think of verb conjugations, they get a little nervous. All of those endings, the spelling changes, the irregulars… English, if it’s your native language, seems so much simpler. All you do is stick an -s or -es on the he/she/it forms, and Bob’s your uncle. That’s still a conjugation, of course,... Continue Reading →
(Image source: pixabay.com) [CW] Learning vocabulary is obviously an important part of learning a language. In some ways, it's also the most boring part, because it really just comes down to memorization. And memorization can be tedious. But memorization is really the first part of the process; to move new vocabulary from your short term... Continue Reading →
(Image Source: pixabay.com) [EZ] Let’s just get this out of the way right now, learning a language takes, well, a while. If you put yourself into the proverbial language learning car and after 5 minutes ask, “are we fluent yet?” I can tell you right now, this is going to be a long and arduous... Continue Reading →
[EZ] If you’re like many of us, you have a foreign language story. More often than not, it’s an unsuccessful experience in high school or college that left you with a few words of French or Spanish, and the depressing feeling that you were the problem. You just didn’t seem to “get” a foreign language.... Continue Reading →
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