We’ve just returned from our time working with Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Jordan. In my last post, I shared about some of the observations I’d made doing language immersion in Jordan as a young family for the first time. We took our 8 month old son with us on his first adventure and it… [Read More]
How Traveling With A Family Is Improving My Language Immersion
Greetings from Jordan! I realize it’s been a while since I posted an actual update on what I’ve been doing. I’ll be sharing details with you on what I’m specifically doing in Jordan next week but today I want to touch on something else. You might remember that earlier this year I shared that we… [Read More]
3 Challenging Features Of The Russian Language And How To Overcome Them
Today’s guest post comes from Toni, who’s a 21 year old language lover and student. She speaks varying levels of Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic. Toni loves to travel and share her language learning tips and experiences over at the blog Live Fluent. Over to you, Toni. 🙂 In my experience, Russian speakers think their… [Read More]
The Best Kept Secret In Language Learning
Today’s guest post comes from James Corl, a passionate 15 year old language learner from the US (see his italki profile here). James started learning Italian at the age of 12, eventually moving on to learn Spanish, French and Chinese too. Today he wants to share with you some of things he’s learned along the… [Read More]
Free Resources For Language Learners Moving To Another Country
Today’s guest post comes from Ray who runs a site for online language lessons called Live Lingua. Ray was born in the Philippines and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. He’s volunteered with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mexico working in the heavily indigenous area of Chiapas. He went on marry his Spanish teacher – Laura –… [Read More]
How To Prepare For Your First Intensive Language Course
Today’s post comes from Pat Goodridge, who guest posted here not too long ago (see here). In it he shares some great advice for getting the most out of intensive language courses and some of the things he experienced recently doing one himself. Over to you, Pat. This summer marks the completion of my first… [Read More]
Tips On Learning Arabic From A High School Perspective
Today we have a guest post from Hudson Lee, a 17 year old student from a private school that offers Arabic. Hudson recently travelled to Jordan and has some tips to share based on what he’s learned. I think it’s great to see young people enthusiastic about Arabic and the Middle East! Over to you,… [Read More]
Introducing Talk In Arabic v.2.0: New And Improved!
Earlier this year I announced that we had begun work on a brand new and updated version of TalkInArabic.com. Well, I can finally say it’s up and running. 🙂 There were some major delays unfortunately so the site development took a few more months than it was supposed to (which I apologize for to those… [Read More]
Learning Jordanian Arabic? Why You Should Use Diwan Baladna (Review)
Today is the first in a series of mini reviews that I’m putting together for various must-have Arabic resources. I’ve had the chance recently to use and comb through different books and tools – some of which have been incredibly useful to me while working with TalkInArabic.com – so I figured it would be a… [Read More]
Best Resources For Teaching Your Child A Second Language
As you all know, my wife and I recently welcomed our son into the world (first child!) and I’m already talking with other polyglot parents to gain more insight into strategies for raising young kids to be bilingual. Today Shannon Kennedy who blogs over at Eurolinguiste is sharing some of what she’s been doing and resources she’s using… [Read More]
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