I had a Chinese friend in grad school who was imprisoned during the cultural revolution in China. He was an English professor, and he was forbidden...
I started doing FSI Basic Spanish. I have tried a couple of times to go through this course, and have stopped. I think I used poor techniques and...
I was in the University of Hawaii Second Language Acquisition/English as a Second Language graduate program when some of those studies were being...
i had a nice surprise with my Samoan. When I lived in Samoa for 6 years as a Peace Corps volunteer, I rapidly got to a C2 level (as measured by...
Hi, I've continued on with shadowing a bunch of screenplays and novels. I've shadowed and read aloud at least 10 pages every day. Recently I've been...
No criticism of the challenge or of any of the nice people in it was intended; I should have stopped reading the posts in the discussion thread. I...
I also speak Samoan
As I expected, I changed my way of handling files a bit. I was spending too much time doing L-R to learn the meanings of the words, when a couple of...
Bob, oh to be in Cebu! I lived in Bataan for 8 years back in the '80s, and left shortly after Pinatubo erupted. I would live in the Philippines...
Boy did I write a long post about what I'm doing these days! I should have said: I like to do L-R, shadowing, and SRS(anki), so I'm going to do L-R...
I was tested as a C2 (FSI 4+) in Samoan; I'm probably a B1 in Tagalog active skills. Although I've fossilized at low levels in Tagalog, I watch...
Hi, I'm Steve, a 61 year old language learner. I had success learning languages when I was in my 20's, and 30's learning Samoan and Tagalog, and I...
About 30 years ago I did a masters degree in second language acquisition. One of the more surprising studies I remember reading was one about people...
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