Cloud-Tutoring: Combining Automated Teaching and Personalized Learning
Idohosaa Ness shares his vision of language education: Every student should have a personalized learning experience. No teacher should ever have to repeat herself more than once.
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Why focus will get you much more than talent ever will
Shortly after I started blogging on Fi3M, I came across another site about learning and improving your ability to learn and made contact with the author. A few months later, Scott Young and I met up while I was passing through Paris briefly. (He’s the one who took that photo of me in front of […]
How to speak French like a Quebecker – Le québécois en 10 leçons
As you all know, I’m a huge fan of Quebec and especially of its French dialect (here’s a video of me in French, interviewing a Quebec girl about the differences) and the wonderful people there. Because I genuinely tried to speak like them while living in Montréal, rather than rigidly sticking to the French I […]
How I learned more Italian in London than in Italy
One of the most prominent myths in language learning is that you have to go to the country to successfully learn it. This is so untrue!! I have always said that it depends on your attitude not your latitude and moving to the country may not help at all in some cases. This topic will […]
How to receive language feedback for free and provide it for profit using Soundcloud
It’s time for another guest post from Fi3M’s most frequent guest contributor, Idahosa, of The Mimic Method. Since I’m currently working on improving (among other things) my accent in various languages, this post is very timely for myself! I’ll get into using Soundcloud too for feedback on the specific problems I need to fix (such […]
Dropping Barriers: What opera singers study, and how it can help you learn languages easier
Recently there was an interesting article on Lifehacker called I learned to speak four languages in a few years. Here’s how by Gabriel Wyner. He got in touch with me and asked to guest post about his relevant experience as an Opera Singer (as you can see in the photo!) to help him learn several […]
How we all benefit when women are multilingual
Today’s guest post is from Susanna, author of Language is Music, who speaks seven languages and promotes learning languages with music and the media. Susanna and I made a multilingual video together in San Francisco and she also wrote a previous guest post here about listening techniques and how to use songs to learn languages. […]
How I Learned to Rap in 4 Languages I don’t speak in 1 Night Using the Free Application “Audacity”
Check out this video! Idahosa is back once again for another guest post about using rap to learn a language, and this time he’s bringing this absolutely amazing demonstration, where you can hear him rap in eight languages, four of which he doesn’t even speak! Cool as it is, he has broken down the key […]
Spanish: Fluent in 3 Months Using Video Diaries
Today’s guest post is from Will Peach, an Englishman journeying around Spain, keeping regular video diaries to make himself accountable for learning the language. Will found my blog shortly before beginning his adventure and continues to apply my tips in the hope that he will reach his defined level of fluency before September of this […]
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