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As I mentioned in my inaugural post, my goal with my contribution to this blog is to profile a year in Osaka and the surrounding Kansai area. To that end, I will wait until the new year to start talking about my travel and cultural experiences. But in the meantime, I’d like to talk about [...]
Continue reading...What is the best way to study a foreign language?
1. January 2008
There are a number of different ways to study a language, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. You may find a combination of these is best for you. * Taught courses * Teaching yourself * Language exchange * Picking it up by [...]
Continue reading...How to Resurrect Your High School Spanish… or Any Language (Plus: Be on the CBS Early Show!)
1. January 2008
How can you possibly maintain fluency in two foreign languages — let alone five or six — if the opportunities to use them are months or years apart? In 20 minutes, I leave from JFK for Iceland, then Scotland, and then a circle in Europe that will include Oktoberfest in Munich. Germany is strategic, as I [...]
Continue reading...How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor)
1. January 2008
So far, I’ve deconstructed Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Irish Gaelic, Korean, and perhaps a dozen others. I’m far from perfect in these languages, and I’m terrible at some, but I can converse in quite a few with no problems whatsoever—just ask the MIT students who came up to me last [...]
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1. January 2008
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