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How to learn a foreign language: Skimming
Skimming is just a form of familiarization with languages which are close to a language I already know. For example, Dutch is very close (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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How to learn a foreign language: Learning
This stage comes after familiarization or skimming through the language of interest and is what the title suggests—learning the language (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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How to learn a foreign language: Familiarization
Familiarization is a language learning method applicable only to languages that are not closely related to a language I already know, (...)
February 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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The single most important thing to realize when learning foreign languages
Most people, especially those who are monolingual, don’t realize what the language they speak actually is. Here is a very broad definition (...)
January 7, 2013 – Jakub Marian –
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How to recognize gender in German using suffixes
In German, almost every noun belongs to one of the following three gender groups: Masculine (der), feminine (die), or neuter (das). To be (...)
December 30, 2012 – Jakub Marian – German
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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English words most commonly mispronounced by foreigners
The list below contains some of the most commonly mispronounced words (mostly by foreigners) in English. Pronunciation is given in the (...)
September 21, 2012 – Jakub Marian – English
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what’s the difference?
A complete explanation of how e, è, é, ê, and ë are used in French, with rules, examples and pronunciation. (...)
September 11, 2012 – Jakub Marian – French
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How to learn a foreign language: Introduction
It has been only a few years that I became interested in learning foreign languages. In high school, I had classes in English (which I (...)
July 17, 2012 – Jakub Marian – Language learning
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