I’m not quite sure what to think of this idea. I was checking out traffic logs and saw visits from a [new languages] search, so I did a google search for [new languages] and along the with sites I saw a sponsored ad for esata…. Here’s the ad text:
Esata - a new language
a personal international language
close to English close to the world
www.beginnersgame.com/esata
So, what is it? Well….
Do you want to learn a language in countries where that language is spoken as a native language? You might want to consider browsing eurolanguages.com. They have a great listing of language courses in the countries that the languages are spoken. Currently they have listings for English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and Polish courses but the site owner tells me that Russian will be added soon as well.
This is a great way for those that are interested in a true immersion experience.
This is certainly an unusual news story, but I stumbled across it this evening and though it was interesting and worth posting here. Apparently after a brain injury, a Seattle area woman now speaks with what sounds like a foreign accent. On reading the article it sounds as though her speech changes at times. It’s not consistent. Sometimes she doesn’t speak, sometimes just jibberish and the rest of the time it sounds as though she has a European accent.
Interesting.
“In this course everybody speaks French…” French In Action. I’ve been working my way through this 52 episode video series and, having previously worked through Destinos (an Introduction to Spanish) I can’t help but ask myself why there aren’t more courses like this. I understand there are courses like this for German (Fokus Deutsch) and Chinese (?Dragon Tongue?) although I haven’t seen those (yet). I recall seeing bits of Destinos many years ago and never saw it from the beginning until about 5 years ago as I was working on my re-discovery of the Spanish language. I found the series online and methodically went through. No, I didn’t understand every word in the beginning, but as the course went on (supplemented through other study methods), I got a better and better understanding.
For years I “grazed” I had spent a couple years on Spanish in High School, a year on German in College, six months or more studying French on my own and I just listened/read/flitted back and forth between each. I wasn’t making any progress I wasn’t really trying. In fact, now that I think about it at that point it was really aimless wandering. I wanted to learn more but didn’t know quite what else to do. So… I dedicated myself to picking one of the three languages and really pursuing a longer term course. I’ve now spent 5 years or more (with a few interruptions) studying Spanish primarily and now I have decided that I am comfortable enough with my understanding of Spanish to branch out a bit…
Oh…..this is such a cool idea. On a 3 inch disk (non-corroding metal - nickel according to one account.) They have engraved (microscopically etched). Writings in 1000+ languages. The text starts out large enough to read and spirals smaller giving a hint that with magnification there is more. Is there ever! 15,000 pages of text. There are translations of the first few chapters of Genesis and pages of information on each language including Swadesh lists of the 200 most common words. Reading the disk requires a 500x microscope. They are packaged as a sphere with one half being a glass magnifier and the other a steel hemisphere (if I read this correctly.)
I still don’t see making use of the blog style posts that much here. To me the main focus of this site is the resource pages that I’m working on fleshing out. I started out with a good deal of information on Learning Spanish and now I’ve dumped a lot of information that I’ve come across on Mandarin, Swedish, Cherokee and American Sign Language. There’s more to come in time.
I expect this site to follow one of the areas that I’m most interested in lately, the study of languages. I have studied Spanish, German and French over the years and am currently continuing my work in Spanish. I hope to provide many resources here to online tools, books, software as well as reviews of methods to continue your learning. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’ll bookmark and revisit soon!
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