We offer homestay programs for all the languages that we teach and over 80% of our students opt to stay with a homestay – there’s a reason why it’s so popular.Tip #10 BELIEVE! Anyone Can Do ItPersonal Note: I started learning Mandarin in Beijing at university, however in a very ...
Languages have idioms, false cognates, and lots of other traps for the unwary.Sometimes these can be pretty offensive. I once learned a pretty bad word from a French movie. A word that LingoDeer’s editorial standards won’t let me translate here. I used this word when trying to speak Fr...
Shoot for that moment when learning languages. Until you’ve reached brain-gravy stage, you probably aren’t maximizing your time or effort. In the beginning, you’ll hit mind-melt within an hour or two. Later on, it may take an entire night of hanging out with locals before it happens...
这种教学方法使用音乐、沉默和周边细节来引发学习过去材料的回忆,并强调学生通过使用语言进行交流来应用所学。洛扎诺夫认为,暗示教学可以帮助学生每节课学习1000个新的外语单词。尽管这种教学方法在现代语言教学中获得了一定声望,但很少有教师能够复制洛扎诺夫和他的合作者的成果。这可能是因为学生们没有形成适当的心态和...
As parents, we want our children to excel and enjoy learning Chinese (if you don’t, you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog post). Chinese is one of the hardest languages to learn, especially if your child doesn’t get sufficient exposure at home. ...
first start learning a new language, having every single mistake pointed out to you will be very demoralising so ask for only the more serious errors to be highlighted. When you've acquired more confidence and a degree of fluency in the language, ask for all your errors to be commented ...
There,he is learning two more languages – Russian and Japanese. And through the school, he gets to talk one-on-one with native speakers on Skype. For example,when he meets with his Japanese partner, Qiu helps his p...
These two exercises will help you prepare for class by making you think critically about vocabulary and usage. Write It Down Repetition is key as you're learning English, and writing exercises are a great way to practice. Take 30 minutes at the end of class or study to write down what...
Learn a language with these language learning tips from Drops, the easy and fun way to learn languages.
In many languages, large words are comprised of smaller parts. In English, for example, words can be made by simply adding two words together, like “fire” and “truck”, or by taking prefixes, roots, and suffixes and creating a new word with an obvious meaning. Chinese wo...