Folium: It Takes A Classroom To Learn The Family Language via NPR

… Connect: NPR/CodeSwitch: It Takes a Classroom To Learn The Family Language. … Throughout the United States, there are children of all ages that struggle with their cultural identity due to the suppression of the “heritage language” that their parents or grandparents speak. These kids grew up listening to, watching, or even being spoken to by extended […]

Folium: Strange Spelling Puts English-Speaking Learners At a Disadvantage via BigThink

… Connect BigThink: Strange Spelling Puts English-Speaking Learners at a Disadvantage … English is hard. Between the pronunciation and the spelling English words are extremely difficult to master to foreign speakers. Native English-speakers intuitively know what order to put words in, but this is hard to teach to those just learning the language. The difference […]

Folium: Verbling Pairs You with Native Speakers So You Can Practice Speaking New Languages

Folium: Verbling Pairs You with Native Speakers So You Can Practice Speaking New Languages This sounds like a great way to speak with native speakers of a language! I remember several years ago wondering about how I was going to engage my students in “real” speaking tasks utilizing the target language. I tend to believe […]