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The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #14 March / April 2015
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FEATURED
Are You Wasting Your Money on Language Classes?
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The traditional approach to learning a new language is to attend classed for it. But is spending the time and money taking those classes really worth it, or are you wasting your time?
Chatting in Languages Online
Part 2: Voice Chats
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This is the second part of our article on online chats. It talks about using voice chats, specifically Team Speak and Skype, and the problems with getting people using them.
Why English Is Different Than Any Other Language
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Guest writer Agnieszka Karch relates how she first became interested in other languages and how learning English was different than the others for her.
The Digital Language Collective
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While there are so many people competing to be the best in their field, when the goal is to help others learn, sometimes a better alternative is working together. The Digital Language Collective is a new initiative to unite language bloggers and website builders to help each other do better.
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Are You Wasting Your Money on Language Classes?
The traditional approach to learning a new language is to attend classed for it. But is spending the time and money taking those classes really worth it, or are you wasting your time?
Chatting in Languages Online
Part 2: Voice Chats
This is the second part of our article on online chats. It talks about using voice chats, specifically Team Speak and Skype, and the problems with getting people using them.
Why English Is Different Than Any Other Language
Guest writer Agnieszka Karch relates how she first became interested in other languages and how learning English was different than the others for her.
The Digital Language Collective
While there are so many people competing to be the best in their field, when the goal is to help others learn, sometimes a better alternative is working together. The Digital Language Collective is a new initiative to unite language bloggers and website builders to help each other do better.
COLUMNS
Letter From The Editor
Breaking with Tradition
Traditions are important, but sometimes we must break them to progress.
At the Cinema
Viva La LibertÃ
Politics can be a crazy business, so when a failing senator takes a sudden leave of absence, why not bring in his slightly crazy twin brother to replace him?
Languages in Peril
The Tribes of the Tamil-Kannada
In the hills of southern India are three isolated but ancient languages and people. They are not as famous as their larger brothers, and so these Tamil-Kannada languages ...
Words in Your Mouth
Rice
The etymology of rice is rather clear, but its origins are a little grainy. Find the history of the word in many languages.
Where Are You?
Guess the city and country from the article and picture.
Book Look
A short review of language related books.
IN OTHER ISSUES
Language Learning In The Globalization Era:
Translation, Culture And Power Relations
Though language learning is considered, by many, as an entertainment, it is also a political action by which the learner becomes either empowered or a subject.
Six Ways To Choose Which Languages To Learn
Deciding to learn a language is easy. Deciding which language to learn is a bit trickier. Teddy Nee offers six methods you can use to make the choice.
Revisited
Proverbs
Proverbs are born from common sense expressions and metaphors. We look back to an article from almost one hundred years ago at some English proverbs and what they really ...
Playing Games with Language
Learning vocabulary for a new language can be boring and tedious. But what if it was fun, like a game, and you got rewards for doing it? Enter the newest trend in learnin...
Rongorongo
Island Chants
Rongorongo is a strange writing system used in numerous texts on Easter Island which even the natives have forgotten how to read.
Revisited
Legends of Maui - Maui's Home
Maui is a demi god who is a major figure in the mythology of the Pacific nations. This article talks about his origins and his home.
Languages in Peril
Sayonara, Ainu
Indigenous languages and people are often wiped out by an invading force or a competing culture. Such it is with the Ainu people of northern Japan, but they did not give ...
How Do You Say It?
A look at sound notation systems
A new language means new words, new grammar, and new sounds. But how do learn to pronounce those new sounds if you only have written resources? We look at some common sou...
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