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Kielillä maailmalle Alexander Stubb .mov. Kielitivoli. Eurooppalainen Suomi ry » Erasmus in Schools - Erasmus kouluissa - Erasmus i skolorna. Kieltenopettajia verkossa. Verkko kieltenopetuksessa. @senjalarsen:in esitys #cmadfi:ssä piirrettyinä muistiinpanoina #sketchnotes - Linda's Sketchnotes. Piirtämäni pläjäys messuseinänä - Linda's Sketchnotes. Etaopetus.fi - Kannustavat sähköiset kokeet. Kieltenopet verkossa - Kielitivoli - vieraiden kielten opetuksen kehittäjien yhteisö.

Association des Professeurs de Français de Finlande. Tabletlaitteet kieltenopetuksessa. TVT kielten opettamisessa. Internet Polyglot. Translating machines and (Language) Teaching. On January 5, 2013, the magazine The Economist published an article on simultaneous translation by computers and one of the first questions it asks readers is How long, then, before automatic simultaneous translation becomes the norm, and all those tedious language lessons at school are declared redundant?

Translating machines and (Language) Teaching

The very first thing that sprung to mind was how old the writer was. The second question was where exactly he went to school. The reason for the very first question is to find out whether he (I don’t know why I decided to call the writer a he, though) learned foreign languages through Grammar Translation or the Audio-lingual method and if all his language classes were a mixture of drills and meaningless translations. Voice Driven Web Apps: Introduction to the Web Speech API. The new JavaScript Web Speech API makes it easy to add speech recognition to your web pages.

Voice Driven Web Apps: Introduction to the Web Speech API

This API allows fine control and flexibility over the speech recognition capabilities in Chrome version 25 and later. Here's an example with the recognized text appearing almost immediately while speaking. Let’s take a look under the hood. First we check to see if the browser supports the Web Speech API by checking if the webkitSpeechRecognition object exists. Learn Languages Better – Gamification – a useful innovation for language learning or just a fad? – #ELTChat summary. Kielitaitoinen kansa? ”Se ei ole kohta enää totta” 700_report_cover. 5 Fun Ways to Learn a New Language. Foreign languages: how to memorise vocabulary. Cluster Those one-word-a-day language learning apps may feel convenient, but thematically, they’re all over the place, delivering a chain of unrelated words: envelope, tired, January, receive, onion.

Foreign languages: how to memorise vocabulary

Focus on a single theme each week. Un adolescente neoyorkino aprende 23 idiomas de forma autodidacta gracias a Internet. The Benefits of Bilingualism. SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world.

The Benefits of Bilingualism

But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development.

To see the full article, subscribe here. Correction: March 25, 2012. Speaking two languages from childhood keeps brain in good shape as we age. Pensioners who spoke two languages from childhood were far quicker at switching between mental tasksBilinguals also expended less mental energy, suggesting they were using their brains more efficiently By Claire Bates Published: 10:57 GMT, 9 January 2013 | Updated: 13:23 GMT, 9 January 2013.

Speaking two languages from childhood keeps brain in good shape as we age

Kaksikielisen aivoissa tehoa - Tiede. Finnish verb conjugation. VESA - Verkkosanasto. Tieteen kansallinen termipankki - Tieteen termipankki. Finnish words for snow. Luki-Luukas. Oulussa opiskellaan suomea kännykän ja älytarrojen avulla. Nuoret kertovat kieltenopiskelusta: Ruotsiin voi rakastua ja opettaja voi olla liian hauska. Animal Sounds - ESL Language studies abroad. 50 Great Language Learning Podcasts. We all know that it is important to learn a foreign language, so let’s take a look at some resources that will help you learn and practice. Of course, textbooks and word drills are important as you learn, but even more valuable is practice listening and speaking the language.

These language podcasts will help you hone your listening skills and increase your proficiency in no time! Spanish.

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4 New Punctuation Marks For The 21st Century. I think we can all agree that the tone of digital communication is decidedly different than that which occurs face to face.

4 New Punctuation Marks For The 21st Century

(At TeachThought, we’re unfortunately huge fans of the sarcastic and the sardonic.) While this shift in tone could be further proof of the internet’s complete dissolution of decent human interaction, that’s probably a stretch. With the right touch, a nice layer of voice and personality can not only increase the readability of ideas, but create additional layers of meaning as well (irony and satire attacking ideas at the subtext level, for example). Quino, el padre de Mafalda, recibirá la medalla de las Artes y las Letras Francesas. Qué difícil es hablar el español. Los 5 anuncios con más flow del 2012. Los mejores anuncios de televisión en España. Home - FCL. Select Your Operating System. Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and English for free. The Crazy Brilliant Idea Behind Duolingo. Ever wanted to learn a language or translate the entirety of Wikipedia into another language?

Study: Learning Spanish With Duolingo Can Be More Effective Than College Classes Or Rosetta Stone. Education is quickly moving online, but we haven’t seen all that many studies that actually look into the effectiveness of these new forms of online learning.

Study: Learning Spanish With Duolingo Can Be More Effective Than College Classes Or Rosetta Stone

To see how its program performed, the language learning service Duolingo, founded by CAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, commissioned a study (PDF) into the effectiveness of its program. The result, which even surprised von Ahn: it only takes a Duolingo user 34 hours to learn the equivalent of a first college semester’s worth of Spanish. A similar study by the same researchers who conducted Duolingo’s study, by the way, found that it took Rosetta Stone users between 55 and 60 hours to learn the same amount of material. These studies were conducted by Roumen Vesselinov, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and John Grego, Professor and Chair of the Statistics Department and the University of South Carolina. Verbling. Italki.com vs Livemocha in Social Networking. 21 outils technopédagogiques pour l’apprentissage d’une langue.