1. NTNU Web-based Collocation Retrival System
A monolingual collocation retrival system developed by Dr. Howard Chen at NTNU.
2. Tango Verb-Noun Collocation
Deveoped by Dr. 劉顯親 from 清華大學 . TANGO is a concordancer capable of answering users’ queries on collocation use. Currently, TANGO supports two text collections: a monolingual corpus (BNC) and a bilingual corpus (SPC). Moreover, TANGO will show the collocation types and instances with collocations and translation counterparts highlighted.
3. Computer mediated communication
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is defined broadly as any form of human interaction across two or more networked computers. While the term has traditonally referred to those communications that occur via computer-mediated formats it has also been applied to other forms of text-based interaction such as text messaging. Research on CMC focuses largely on the social effects of different computer-supported communication technologies. Many recent studies involve Internet-based social networking supported by social software.
Showing posts with label Resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resources. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Three websites I used most in my translation class
Following are useful website I usually use when I'm doing my academic research:
1. Wikisource
It is a Wikimedia project to build a free, wiki library of source texts, along with translations into any language and other supporting materials. It is also an online library of free content publications collected and maintained by the community. My personal experience of using this website is very good. It is user-friendly, and it is easy for user to find the information they need; moreover, it is amazing for a website to contain so much information and resources.
2. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Merriam-Webster has the resource for you! It is a free reference containing over 20,000 images alongside 6,000 full color illustrations. Furthermore, it is a free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality sources.
3. TED (ideas worth spreading)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. It specially invites experts from various fields to deliberate about 18 minute speech. Approximately 50 minor speeches can be deliberated per year. This official website has not finished until this April. I personally think that TED is very inspiring and has many advantage points. The best of it is you can hear as many speeches as you like in this website. If you think your life is too boring to live, good idea is too hard to find, TED is a wonderful place for you to find inspirations.
1. Wikisource
It is a Wikimedia project to build a free, wiki library of source texts, along with translations into any language and other supporting materials. It is also an online library of free content publications collected and maintained by the community. My personal experience of using this website is very good. It is user-friendly, and it is easy for user to find the information they need; moreover, it is amazing for a website to contain so much information and resources.
2. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Merriam-Webster has the resource for you! It is a free reference containing over 20,000 images alongside 6,000 full color illustrations. Furthermore, it is a free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality sources.
3. TED (ideas worth spreading)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. It specially invites experts from various fields to deliberate about 18 minute speech. Approximately 50 minor speeches can be deliberated per year. This official website has not finished until this April. I personally think that TED is very inspiring and has many advantage points. The best of it is you can hear as many speeches as you like in this website. If you think your life is too boring to live, good idea is too hard to find, TED is a wonderful place for you to find inspirations.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Pronounciation Improving Programs
Followings are several types of programs that can help you to improve your pronounciation:
1. Phonetics Flash Animation Project (done by the University of Iowa.)
This website provides not only an introduction to the American sounds, but also an introduction to German sounds as well as Spanish sounds. Its information is very useful for people who's second or third language is English, German or Spanish. When I was using this website to search the exact pronunciations of few German consonants, I found out that the examples of the consonants and the animation of the changes in oral cavity are amazingly clear and easy for learners to imitate. Moreover, I think the linguistic learners and professors may also use this website as their E-learning materials.
2. Practice on minimal pairs
Minimal pairs play an important role in English learning. Without the ability of identify the minimal pairs, the learners might misunderstand the details of a sentence. This website gives the English learners many chances to practices how to distinguish the minimal pairs by providing lots of exercises and practices. This website is very useful and helpful for the beginners and people who have difficulty to identify minimal pairs in English.
3. PBS Kids (Public Broadcasting Service).
This website is extremely suitable for children, because it is formed by lots of pictures and animation and other elements that children will crazy about. After visiting this website, I think I like its “Video” part the most. The videos there contains several English grammatical rules such as rules of placing vowels and consonants in words, plus vivid animation and wonderful music, it makes boring grammar rules into active and easy-to-catch English songs. Unfortunately, this website also has it disadvantages. The biggest of it is that it has too many sound effects and becomes a little bit annoyed.
1. Phonetics Flash Animation Project (done by the University of Iowa.)
This website provides not only an introduction to the American sounds, but also an introduction to German sounds as well as Spanish sounds. Its information is very useful for people who's second or third language is English, German or Spanish. When I was using this website to search the exact pronunciations of few German consonants, I found out that the examples of the consonants and the animation of the changes in oral cavity are amazingly clear and easy for learners to imitate. Moreover, I think the linguistic learners and professors may also use this website as their E-learning materials.
2. Practice on minimal pairs
Minimal pairs play an important role in English learning. Without the ability of identify the minimal pairs, the learners might misunderstand the details of a sentence. This website gives the English learners many chances to practices how to distinguish the minimal pairs by providing lots of exercises and practices. This website is very useful and helpful for the beginners and people who have difficulty to identify minimal pairs in English.
3. PBS Kids (Public Broadcasting Service).
This website is extremely suitable for children, because it is formed by lots of pictures and animation and other elements that children will crazy about. After visiting this website, I think I like its “Video” part the most. The videos there contains several English grammatical rules such as rules of placing vowels and consonants in words, plus vivid animation and wonderful music, it makes boring grammar rules into active and easy-to-catch English songs. Unfortunately, this website also has it disadvantages. The biggest of it is that it has too many sound effects and becomes a little bit annoyed.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Using podcasting to teach listening
The word "Podcast" has been declared word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary; moreover, podcasting for teachers means to use a new technology to revolutionize teaching and learning, and I think it is an excellent way for practising listening comprehension. A podcast is like a radio show. However, instead of being broadcast live, a podcast is recorded and then distributed over the internet, so that you can listen to it whenever you please. There are thousands of podcasts available, ranging from general interest entertainment shows to those which focus on specific topics such as computers, music and education.
Why I love podcast is because learners who listening to English generally would like some help whenever they have not understood a particular section or word, and some podcasts come with transcripts, so that listeners can listen and read the transcript.
Following are some useful resources related to "Podcast":
I. An overview of podcasting for English teachers and learners
Introducing the listenging materials for teaching and learning.
II. Useful Podcast providing websites:
1. ESL Pod.com: English as a Second Language Podcast
This podcast is run by a volunteer team of experienced English as a Second Language professors in the States. More information on ESLPod.Com athttp://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/about-us/
2. Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
One of the most comprehensive listening sites on the web. For years, Randall has been adding to this amazing archive of audio activities.
III. Listening: theory and practice in modern foreign language competence
An article focus on listening and second language acquisiton theory, by Prof. Larry Vandergrift.
Why I love podcast is because learners who listening to English generally would like some help whenever they have not understood a particular section or word, and some podcasts come with transcripts, so that listeners can listen and read the transcript.
Following are some useful resources related to "Podcast":
I. An overview of podcasting for English teachers and learners
Introducing the listenging materials for teaching and learning.
II. Useful Podcast providing websites:
1. ESL Pod.com: English as a Second Language Podcast
This podcast is run by a volunteer team of experienced English as a Second Language professors in the States. More information on ESLPod.Com athttp://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/about-us/
2. Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
One of the most comprehensive listening sites on the web. For years, Randall has been adding to this amazing archive of audio activities.
III. Listening: theory and practice in modern foreign language competence
An article focus on listening and second language acquisiton theory, by Prof. Larry Vandergrift.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Evaluation of the Web Sources
The following two sites give some suggestions and guidelines on website evaluation. When you surf the internet, keep these guidelines in mind.
A. Evaluating Sources by Deborah Healey
There are too many website and gradable resources insisting in the world wild web. This long article gives specifically directions and suggestion about how to select authenticable resource on the internet. It is really helpful when the students like us need to search for the real academic resources with high credibility for study purposes.
B. Evaluating Internet Research Sources by Robert Harris
This useful article provides various contents from the types of Internet information to the ways of checking the authenticity of Internet information, including the diversity of information, the ways of screening information, the source selection tip, the ways of evaluating information, the CARS checklist for information quality, and the CAFÉ Advice for living with information.
C. Rubrics for Evaluating Websites
a. for early primary grades
b. for 2nd and 3rd graders
c. for intermediate learners
This website provides three kinds of evaluation charts (web / Internet information use only) for different levels of language learners. These three useful evaluation charts can be adopted later when we are going to teach these three grades of students.
A. Evaluating Sources by Deborah Healey
There are too many website and gradable resources insisting in the world wild web. This long article gives specifically directions and suggestion about how to select authenticable resource on the internet. It is really helpful when the students like us need to search for the real academic resources with high credibility for study purposes.
B. Evaluating Internet Research Sources by Robert Harris
This useful article provides various contents from the types of Internet information to the ways of checking the authenticity of Internet information, including the diversity of information, the ways of screening information, the source selection tip, the ways of evaluating information, the CARS checklist for information quality, and the CAFÉ Advice for living with information.
C. Rubrics for Evaluating Websites
a. for early primary grades
b. for 2nd and 3rd graders
c. for intermediate learners
This website provides three kinds of evaluation charts (web / Internet information use only) for different levels of language learners. These three useful evaluation charts can be adopted later when we are going to teach these three grades of students.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Corpus / Corpora V.S. Concordancer
I. What is a corpus?
Corpus is a collection of texts, either written texts or a transcription of recorded speech, which has been designed and compiled based on a set of clearly defined criteria. It is also a collection of linguistic data, which can be used as a starting-point of linguistic description or as a means of verifying hypotheses about a language.
Corpora (that's the plural of corpus) are now used by many people involved in language teaching. All of the modern learners' dictionaries are based on corpora. People who study grammar and how best to teach it use corpora to discover new grammar principles not found in older grammar books.
Different corpora include native speaker vs. learner, monolingual vs. multilingual, plain vs. annotated.
*Extra information provided:
II. What is a concordancer?
Corpus users use a type of software called a concordancer to search for a specific word or phrase they want to find. The concordancer searches the whole database and then provides all the sentences containing that word or phrase. In this way, the user can see how it has been used by many different people, and can study its meaning, grammar, and so on. (Also see Corpus Linguistics).
A concordancer is a kind of search engine designed for language study. If you enter a word, it looks through a large body of texts, called a corpus, and lists every single example of the word.
This lets you look at a word in context, see how common it is, and see the style associated with it. Such a tool is a computer-specific tool that you may not be familiar with from learning English by more traditional ways, but it is worth spending some time experimenting with it and getting to know how to use it. In addition to showing you a clear and objective picture of language use, concordancers can help you with words that you are unsure of. You can use it to compare your usage with that of native speakers.
1. The Bank of English – written and spoken English (used extensively by researchers and for the COBUILD series of English language books)
2. The BNC – written and spoken British English (used extensively by researchers and for the Oxford University Press, Chambers and Longman publishing houses)
3. BYU Corpus of American English-- is a large corpus of American English contains a wide array of texts from a number of genres.Different corporanative speaker vs. learner monolingual vs. multilingual plain vs. annotated
Corpus is a collection of texts, either written texts or a transcription of recorded speech, which has been designed and compiled based on a set of clearly defined criteria. It is also a collection of linguistic data, which can be used as a starting-point of linguistic description or as a means of verifying hypotheses about a language.
Corpora (that's the plural of corpus) are now used by many people involved in language teaching. All of the modern learners' dictionaries are based on corpora. People who study grammar and how best to teach it use corpora to discover new grammar principles not found in older grammar books.
Different corpora include native speaker vs. learner, monolingual vs. multilingual, plain vs. annotated.
*Extra information provided:
II. What is a concordancer?
Corpus users use a type of software called a concordancer to search for a specific word or phrase they want to find. The concordancer searches the whole database and then provides all the sentences containing that word or phrase. In this way, the user can see how it has been used by many different people, and can study its meaning, grammar, and so on. (Also see Corpus Linguistics).
A concordancer is a kind of search engine designed for language study. If you enter a word, it looks through a large body of texts, called a corpus, and lists every single example of the word.
This lets you look at a word in context, see how common it is, and see the style associated with it. Such a tool is a computer-specific tool that you may not be familiar with from learning English by more traditional ways, but it is worth spending some time experimenting with it and getting to know how to use it. In addition to showing you a clear and objective picture of language use, concordancers can help you with words that you are unsure of. You can use it to compare your usage with that of native speakers.
*Extra information provided:
2. http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/concordancers.html
Examples of English language corpora
1. The Bank of English – written and spoken English (used extensively by researchers and for the COBUILD series of English language books)
2. The BNC – written and spoken British English (used extensively by researchers and for the Oxford University Press, Chambers and Longman publishing houses)
3. BYU Corpus of American English-- is a large corpus of American English contains a wide array of texts from a number of genres.Different corporanative speaker vs. learner monolingual vs. multilingual plain vs. annotated
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
CALL: Computer-Assisted Language Learning (website)
Few days ago, I went to a user friendly website called "CALL", and it was created by Erica M. Rosch, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This wonderful website provides a lot of information about specialized topics within the broad category of computer-assisted language learning, as well as CALL links for every language taught at the UW-Madison. Moreover, like all websites, “CALL” is a work in progress maintained through continual attempts to keep the pages updated with current, accurate information, which I think is very responsible. Though I'm not planning to be a teacher in the future, but if I’m going to cite the resource from this website, I can get the latest one. That is really good.
Here are five directions she offered to help a language teacher to incorporate some sort of computer technology into your to CALL classes.
I. Commercial Software (CD-ROMs)
There are several language CD-ROMs and diskettes on the market that could be useful to you. As a language teacher, your job would be to become familiar with what's available, decide how the software can best supplement your class instruction, and then create assignments for your students to work with them in the Multimedia Lab. Some CDs seem to replace the traditional audio tape & workbook; others provide new types of learning activities. Some examples of software that fits into this category are:
1. Practice Makes Perfect (French/German/Spanish)
2. Let's Visit...(Mexico, South America, Spain, France)
3. Video Linguist (French/Spanish)
4. The Rosetta Stone (French/German/Spanish/Russian, ESL)
5. German the Easy Way
This is the easiest and least time-consuming way to get started, but also the least flexible, since you must conform to the structure dictated by the program.
II. World Wide Web
Another way to get started using computer technology is to use the web. From informational pages to interactive exercises, the WWW is an incredible resource for language teachers. Many of you have already done some exploring, and have found useful sites for your classes. Here are some ideas for using sites you come across:
1. Have your students do research on the web.
2. Find sites that explain grammar points, and assign your students to read them.
3. Find sites that have interactive exercises on them and assign them to your students.
4. Find foreign language periodical sites and have your students read them regularly....etc.
If you don't find what you're looking for on the web, you can always make your own home page! LSS currently offers several workshops to help you do this. Click here for more info.
III. Other Internet Applications
The Internet is more than just the world wide web. It's a mode of communication. You can incorporate e-mail activities very effectively into language classes. What easier (and cheaper) way to have your students communicate with native speakers of the language? You can also take advantage of listservs, discussion boards, chat rooms, and MOOs (real-time communication environments).
IV. Presentation Software
Presentation software, such as Powerpoint, Presentations, or Astound, can be used to make slides to accompany lectures & presentations, and to stimulate conversation in the target language. Each slide can present content, or images to describe, or questions for reflection. Presentations can be projected onto a large screen for whole-class viewing, or students can view them on individual computers in the Multimedia Lab at their own pace.
V. Authoring Software
Authoring software allows you to create exercises, language drills and activities for your students, which you can make available in the Multimedia Lab. Examples include: Dasher, Libra, SpeechLab, and Authorware. They vary in flexibility and complexity. Dasher and Libra are simple to learn, and Libra really allows your creative juices to flow...
1. DASHER - This is a rigid template program that allows you to create lesson "Books", made up of "Chapters" that are topic-specific. Your students choose which chapter they'd like to work on (i.e. 'Nouns', 'Future Tense', etc.), and go through the lessons you've created.
2. LIBRA - Similar to Dasher, but much more flexible (NOT more difficult). You create interactive language exercises that can incorporate images, sounds, video clips, and Netscape links.
3. AUTHORWARE - Extremely complex authoring program which allows the highest degree of flexibility and interactivity.
Here are five directions she offered to help a language teacher to incorporate some sort of computer technology into your to CALL classes.
I. Commercial Software (CD-ROMs)
There are several language CD-ROMs and diskettes on the market that could be useful to you. As a language teacher, your job would be to become familiar with what's available, decide how the software can best supplement your class instruction, and then create assignments for your students to work with them in the Multimedia Lab. Some CDs seem to replace the traditional audio tape & workbook; others provide new types of learning activities. Some examples of software that fits into this category are:
1. Practice Makes Perfect (French/German/Spanish)
2. Let's Visit...(Mexico, South America, Spain, France)
3. Video Linguist (French/Spanish)
4. The Rosetta Stone (French/German/Spanish/Russian, ESL)
5. German the Easy Way
This is the easiest and least time-consuming way to get started, but also the least flexible, since you must conform to the structure dictated by the program.
II. World Wide Web
Another way to get started using computer technology is to use the web. From informational pages to interactive exercises, the WWW is an incredible resource for language teachers. Many of you have already done some exploring, and have found useful sites for your classes. Here are some ideas for using sites you come across:
1. Have your students do research on the web.
2. Find sites that explain grammar points, and assign your students to read them.
3. Find sites that have interactive exercises on them and assign them to your students.
4. Find foreign language periodical sites and have your students read them regularly....etc.
If you don't find what you're looking for on the web, you can always make your own home page! LSS currently offers several workshops to help you do this. Click here for more info.
III. Other Internet Applications
The Internet is more than just the world wide web. It's a mode of communication. You can incorporate e-mail activities very effectively into language classes. What easier (and cheaper) way to have your students communicate with native speakers of the language? You can also take advantage of listservs, discussion boards, chat rooms, and MOOs (real-time communication environments).
IV. Presentation Software
Presentation software, such as Powerpoint, Presentations, or Astound, can be used to make slides to accompany lectures & presentations, and to stimulate conversation in the target language. Each slide can present content, or images to describe, or questions for reflection. Presentations can be projected onto a large screen for whole-class viewing, or students can view them on individual computers in the Multimedia Lab at their own pace.
V. Authoring Software
Authoring software allows you to create exercises, language drills and activities for your students, which you can make available in the Multimedia Lab. Examples include: Dasher, Libra, SpeechLab, and Authorware. They vary in flexibility and complexity. Dasher and Libra are simple to learn, and Libra really allows your creative juices to flow...
1. DASHER - This is a rigid template program that allows you to create lesson "Books", made up of "Chapters" that are topic-specific. Your students choose which chapter they'd like to work on (i.e. 'Nouns', 'Future Tense', etc.), and go through the lessons you've created.
2. LIBRA - Similar to Dasher, but much more flexible (NOT more difficult). You create interactive language exercises that can incorporate images, sounds, video clips, and Netscape links.
3. AUTHORWARE - Extremely complex authoring program which allows the highest degree of flexibility and interactivity.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Deal with your vocabulary problems
Deal with your vocabulary problems:
E-referencing tools --Online Dictionaries
This week, I obtain some good resources about online dictionaries from my Computer Assisting Language Learning class, lectured by Sally Lai. As an foreign languages student, I always come to the problem of choosing a good and usful dictionary, what's worse, I need a lot of good dictionary in order to help my study. What do I mean a good and usful dictionary? It needs to content many lexicons, detail explanation, example sentences, source of the prefix, suffix, and the root. Well, such dictionary usually cost lots of money. However, my problem can be temperately solved by the online dictionaries. I personally love this kind of usful resource very much, such as Cambridge Dictionaires Online and Dictionary.com and MSN Encarta are my favorite and often used online dictionaries. Though online dictionary is convinience and free, I still prefer printed dictionary. Believe or not, check vocabularies from printed dictionary really help me to remember that word.
I. Some articles about dicitonaries in language learning
你不可不知的字典知識
如何選擇合適的字典
II. A lot of discussion on dictionaries (the section of 辭典探討)
George Chen on Blog
III. Some online dictionaries
a. Cambridge Dictionaires Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
b. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://www.oup.com/elt/oald/
c. Merriam-Webster OnLine
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
d. Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/
e. OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/
f. Acronym Finder: Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
g. Yahoo! Mini pen
http://tw.mini.yahoo.com/
E-referencing tools --Online Dictionaries
This week, I obtain some good resources about online dictionaries from my Computer Assisting Language Learning class, lectured by Sally Lai. As an foreign languages student, I always come to the problem of choosing a good and usful dictionary, what's worse, I need a lot of good dictionary in order to help my study. What do I mean a good and usful dictionary? It needs to content many lexicons, detail explanation, example sentences, source of the prefix, suffix, and the root. Well, such dictionary usually cost lots of money. However, my problem can be temperately solved by the online dictionaries. I personally love this kind of usful resource very much, such as Cambridge Dictionaires Online and Dictionary.com and MSN Encarta are my favorite and often used online dictionaries. Though online dictionary is convinience and free, I still prefer printed dictionary. Believe or not, check vocabularies from printed dictionary really help me to remember that word.
I. Some articles about dicitonaries in language learning
你不可不知的字典知識
如何選擇合適的字典
II. A lot of discussion on dictionaries (the section of 辭典探討)
George Chen on Blog
III. Some online dictionaries
a. Cambridge Dictionaires Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
b. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://www.oup.com/elt/oald/
c. Merriam-Webster OnLine
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
d. Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/
e. OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/
f. Acronym Finder: Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
g. Yahoo! Mini pen
http://tw.mini.yahoo.com/
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
This is a excellent blog build by Jeffrey Hill, the head of the English Department at the Normandy Business School in Le Havre, France.
The English Blog --For learners and teachers of English
http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/learning_english/index.html
This blog offers its readers many free online resources (including podcast, tool, website and others), such as “WordChamp,” a free online vocabulary building and reading tool, and “The Teacher's Pet Text Tool,” a free transforming program which can help users to texts into fun classroom activity. And guess what? This blog even provide the links for taking a free TOEIC diagnostic test. This is really a volatile,useful, user-friendly blog.
The English Blog --For learners and teachers of English
http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/english/learning_english/index.html
This blog offers its readers many free online resources (including podcast, tool, website and others), such as “WordChamp,” a free online vocabulary building and reading tool, and “The Teacher's Pet Text Tool,” a free transforming program which can help users to texts into fun classroom activity. And guess what? This blog even provide the links for taking a free TOEIC diagnostic test. This is really a volatile,useful, user-friendly blog.
Friday, March 7, 2008
The linguist on language
This is a brilliant blog build by a language expert --Steve Kaufmann
The linguist on language
http://www.thelinguist.blogs.com/
As the author of The Linguist and founder of http://www.thelinguist.com/, Steve generously and generally shares his experiences in learning 9 languages and on language learning and his point of view about enhancing the four skills --listening, reading, writing, speaking. It's a great blog, especially to those people who have encountered difficulties or problems in learning languages. Steve helps the visitors with strategies and devices about how to improve their language acquisition abilities, which I think are very useful.
The linguist on language
http://www.thelinguist.blogs.com/
As the author of The Linguist and founder of http://www.thelinguist.com/, Steve generously and generally shares his experiences in learning 9 languages and on language learning and his point of view about enhancing the four skills --listening, reading, writing, speaking. It's a great blog, especially to those people who have encountered difficulties or problems in learning languages. Steve helps the visitors with strategies and devices about how to improve their language acquisition abilities, which I think are very useful.
Omniglot - the blog
This is a wonderful blog build by a language genius
Omniglot - the blog: one language is never enough- language-related musings http://www.omniglot.com/blog/category/language/language-learning/
This is a wonderful blog build by a language genius –Simon. He can speak many languages and he also provides his personal learning experience on his blog. Moreover, he offers some useful or novel websites and programs, and he also posts new words he acquired (“Word of the day”). And what attracts me the most is his idea of combining different languages together and compare. By doing so, it will be easy and clear for the visitor to understand a word or a grammar use in different languages.
Omniglot - the blog: one language is never enough- language-related musings http://www.omniglot.com/blog/category/language/language-learning/
This is a wonderful blog build by a language genius –Simon. He can speak many languages and he also provides his personal learning experience on his blog. Moreover, he offers some useful or novel websites and programs, and he also posts new words he acquired (“Word of the day”). And what attracts me the most is his idea of combining different languages together and compare. By doing so, it will be easy and clear for the visitor to understand a word or a grammar use in different languages.
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