Cary looks at a unique way to learn a language: following a recipe! Here, Cary teaches Spanish through a recipe for Mexican enchiladas.
June 7, 2021
Learners of a second language are often told they must speak to learn it. Claudia examines this emphasis on speech and reflects on the importance of acquiring a language’s writing system and punctuation rules.
June 1, 2021
Cian delves into the great debate in language learning - whether you should learn in the traditional way (using grammar, vocabulary lists and verb tables) or by just reading and listening to lots of interesting content that you understand. The research is quite clear that just reading and listening is a much more effective strategy.
March 3, 2021
Cian reflects on the painful language learning memorisation that was encouraged in school and proposes the direction we really should be headed in to learn languages.
December 16, 2020