Friday, June 1, 2012

Speaking English - Hungry for English!

Speaking English - Hungry for English! is a Youtube channel with hilarious lessons of English. A group of guys recorded funny lessons of English for beginners. Their aim is to teach English through their videos without texts but with dialogues, songs, quizes.... just learning by listening as children learn their own language.

As they state "Welcome to Hungry for English, our free ESL YouTube series! If you want to learn how to speak English, you've come to the right place. Our online lessons are created to get you speaking English in an intuitive way. As often as possible, we want to show you what we are talking about. You won't find much in the way of written text on our videos and that is intentional. We want you to learn to speak English in the same way that we all learned to speak our native languages as babies - by hearing it instead of reading it."

Speaking English: Lesson #1 - Greetings (Hello/Goodbye)


Speaking English - Hungry for English!



Practice & learn languages

In Babelan, you can contact native speakers and practice foreign languages.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Web pages to learn Belarusian

This post shows a list of web page to learn and practice Belarusian online.

Belarusian is an East-Slavic language spoken by over nine million people as a first language in Belarus and in other countries.

The languages most similar to Belarusian are Russian, Ukrainian and Polish.

If you want to know more about Belarusian, read more information from Wikipedia: Belarusian language.

Links

If you want to meet people and practice languages visit: Babelan, people learning, practicing or teaching languages.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Paradise Uruguay Blog: Montevideo Language Exchange - Uruguayans, expats,...

Interesting language group in Montevideo, Uruguay. If you're around, want practice languages and have fun,   it's a good choice.
  • Paradise Uruguay Blog: Montevideo Language Exchange - Uruguayans, expats,...: It’s Friday evening in the Montevideo neighborhood of Pocitos. I am approaching Costa Azul Café where the Montevideo Language Exchange is meeting. I see a long row of tables outside with more than 20 people sitting on each side. As I approach, the subtle humid scent of the city gives way to the smell of pizza.(...)


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Friday, May 11, 2012

How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

Sometimes, people believes that they cannot learn a language, although they can. Read the following news from the BBC about a student who speak several languages. Amazing!

How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

BBC. 21 February 2012
Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student.

The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages - English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian.

Entrants in the competition run by the publishers Collins had to be aged between 16 and 22 and conversant in multiple languages.

Alex drew on all his skills to tell BBC News about his passion for learning languages and how he came to speak so many.

Watch the video of Alex Rawlings talking about languages in 11 different languages: How do you become fluent in 11 languages?

In addition, you can meet people who is interested in practicing and exchanging languages in Babelan.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Resources for foreign language tutors - BBC Language Tutors

BBC Languages is a great resource for students of languages. It's got audio and video courses for students of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portugues, Chinese and so on.

As well, BBC Languages has got a web page for foreign language tutors. It's focus on tutors of French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Here, teachers can find different resources. You can find news and programmes online in the Foreign-language TV. Transcripts are available to download.

It's worth visiting the areas where you can read tips, guidelines and internet resources.

There's a forum where you can post your tips and read what other teachers say about teaching strategies.

Also, in order to get the latest, you can sign up the monthly BBC Languages newsletter that features current highlights from the Languages site.

Practice & learn languages

In Babelan, you can contact native speakers and practice foreign languages.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Learn Russian the Fun Way

Victoria is a Russian native speaker who also speaks English. She built Learn Russian the Fun Way, a blog that teaches you Russian.

She states in her blog: I do believe that learning a foreign language doesn’t need to be boring. It can be fun! This is why I am starting this blog – to make learning Russian fun and easy for you.

The blog is fun. It's got video lessons, posts about cultural topics, useful vocabulary, helpful hints about learning Russian, interesting links, phrases to get by in Russian and so on.

In additon, the blog has got a page with tasty recipies from Russia and Ukraine: Борщ, пельмени, блинчики... (do not miss it out).
Bellow you can watch a lesson from the blog: Colours in Russian. Enjoy!



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