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Big Brother Did My Homework: How Governments help Language Learners

London Sunset You’d normally think that your government is only there to collect your taxes and spy on you from time to time. Well, it turns out that other countries’ officials are actually useful from time to time: they have means of helping you learn the language of their country! Take a look at a handful of ways to approach this polyglot goodness.

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Apps, Immersion, User Engagement – Back to Duolingo

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If I had to find my internet sweet-spot – the language lover’s paradise, the virtual playground for foreign language study – I’d go for Duolingo. This week the Android-loving polyglots have even more reasons to rejoice. Android language learning app from Duolingo is here. What else has changed with Duolingo since my last review?

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Guerrilla Language Learning Buddy Groups: from Facebook to Captain Planet

 

Foreign language study is more people-oriented than other disciplines I know of. So it makes sense that students of one language spend time learning – and teaching – together. How do such language learning communities grow – especially when time, money and resources are crucial? Let’s try to find out.

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Guerrilla Language Learning Challenge Update 1: Are We There Yet?

 

I hesitated before writing this update. “It’s obvious, everyone knows that,” I thought.
And then I thought again. How true is it?
Today is about goals – and is the first update on my Guerrilla Language Learning Challenge.