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Street-Smart Language Learning™: The value of oral translation into English
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Street-Smart Language Learning™. Friday, June 7, 2013. The value of oral translation into English. The following is one of a series of guest posts by Mike Shelby. Mike is a former ESL teacher who has been quietly (i.e., without his own blog) disseminating his thoughts on language learning. Around the internet for quite some time. Have you noticed that interpreters have to possess the most thorough knowledge of a foreign language, especially of conversation, vocabulary and grammar? Jun 10, 2013, 6:42:00 AM.
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Street-Smart Language Learning™: Why I use flashcards (and you should too): Dealing with the lack of one-to-one translations
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Street-Smart Language Learning™. Monday, August 19, 2013. Why I use flashcards (and you should too): Dealing with the lack of one-to-one translations. Randy explains his second major issue with flashcards as follows:. And the other bad side-effect of learning from flashcards is that they encourage you to believe in one-to-one translation. They make you narrow-minded and unaware of the language you think you're learning. All you need to do is find some way to differentiate the slide of the flashcard that ...
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Street-Smart Language Learning™: Why I use flashcards (and you should too): When to use flashcards
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Street-Smart Language Learning™. Monday, July 15, 2013. Why I use flashcards (and you should too): When to use flashcards. You'll want to use flashcards during "trapped time", i.e., time in which you can't otherwise efficiently gain meaningful exposure to your target language, and minimize their use at other times. I think Randy would recommend that I spend that kind of time using my smartphone to listen to music, listen to podcasts, read a book, or watch a movie. You'll have to go through a number of co...
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Street-Smart Language Learning™: Get more exposure from target language music by adjusting songs' start and stop times
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Street-Smart Language Learning™. Monday, September 2, 2013. Get more exposure from target language music by adjusting songs' start and stop times. While using music as a tool to improve my various languages. I discovered something that was crashing headlong into my impatience to learn quickly: when trying to get exposure to a target language via music, I'd often have to sit through parts of the songs that weren't giving me any exposure to the target language or were only providing very repetitive exposure.
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中文 Quest: Yeah, I'm still here.
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Welcome to my online Chinese learning diary! I will include what I've been learning and links to sources and tools that help me in my quest to become bilingual. Thursday, October 6. Yeah, I'm still here. After 5 years (五个年) here I am. Still at it. I've been spending more time in the last month studying than I have since I began in 二零零七. When I have more time I will post more. Just wanted to check in. It has been 2 years (两个年) after all! Thursday, October 06, 2011. October 7, 2011 at 11:08 PM.
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The Expat is now on Twitter! - An Expatriate in Taiwan
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An Expatriate in Taiwan. An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. The Expat is now on Twitter! October 18, 2011. Been a while since I’ve updated, I know. However, I have some news: I’m no on Twitter. You can see my feed on the right side over there. —-. Donate Bitcoin to The Expatriate. Vibram FiveFingers spotted in Taiwan! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Notify me of new posts by email.
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Updates - An Expatriate in Taiwan
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An Expatriate in Taiwan. An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. March 29, 2012. Been going through a bunch of old pictures lately and decided to update some albums and add a photos page (see the tabs at the top). To celebrate, here’s a picture of a cat running away with someone’s sausage. I snapped this pic in front of a breakfast store in Kaohsiung. Donate Bitcoin to The Expatriate. The Expat is now on Twitter! Taiwanese sign →. Like what you see here?
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Holidays Archives - An Expatriate in Taiwan
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An Expatriate in Taiwan. An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. Donate Bitcoin to The Expatriate at: 13Gy7aoRUpWWjuVQzM79GtzXrgbrWnFk8Y. February 3, 2011. August 29, 2015. Thanksgiving came and went last week with nary a care in Taiwan. After all, most places have had their Christmas decorations up for 3 weeks already. While not by any means a Christian nation, Christmas does, at least, allow children…. November 28, 2010. Like what you see here?
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Bathroom cartoons - An Expatriate in Taiwan
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An Expatriate in Taiwan. An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. December 28, 2010. December 28, 2010. Here are 3 small cartoons that I’ve taken pictures of in various bathrooms. Donate Bitcoin to The Expatriate. Nightmarket Treasures – Internet Explorer. Someone wants us to have kids. A different type of drink. Transformers 2 comes to Taiwan. A look at Taiwanese citrus fruits →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published.
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A look at Taiwanese citrus fruits - An Expatriate in Taiwan
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An Expatriate in Taiwan. An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. A look at Taiwanese citrus fruits. January 25, 2011. January 16, 2012. Mrs Expat and I, indeed, stopped by the side of the road where such harvesting was going on and, being the curious type, ended up buying approximately 40kg of æŸ ä. Most Taiwanese will tell you that æŸ ä. According to Wikipedia,. From left to right (and largest to smallest) I have: ç ŽäººæŸ‘. Měiréngān), æ 柑. I decided...
