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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

French Prepositions with Geographical Names

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Is it à, de, en or something else? As students of French, especially on Duolingo , we're often confused about what preposition to use ...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

Duolingo: Language Learning as a Game

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What is Duolingo? (Updated December 30, 2014) Duolingo is an award-winning free, web-based program for learning foreign languages. Duoli...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Spanish "Resumptive Lo"

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What is "Resumptive Lo ?" In Spanish we often see sentences with a mysterious lo  in them. For example consider this dialogue: ...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Italian Perfect Tenses

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What are Perfect Tenses? A perfect tense is a compound tense  which combines an auxiliary verb  with a past participle . For every simple ...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Learning a Foreign Language by Reading a Novel

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Reading for Pleasure vs. Reading to Learn My previous posts on using a Kindle to read in a foreign language outline most of what you need...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Better Reading on a Kindle

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Last week , I explained how to use a bilingual dictionary on a Kindle to read novels in foreign languages. This week I'm going to talk a...
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Monday, September 08, 2014

How to Read a Foreign Novel on a Kindle

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The Challenge If you speak a foreign language well enough to puzzle out newspaper articles, you have probably at one time or another attem...
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