Suzy Millward from http://suzymillward.blogspot.com writes:
Do you have any experience with the Czech language? I'm currently trying to learn this, one of the 10 hardest languages, and I'd love any insight another non-native Czech speaker has to offer.
Hi Fellow Polyglots,
After taking a writing hiatus (partially to work on my language repertoire), I'm back to posting. I'll have a few reviews up in the next few days, and I'll mention a few of the languages I've been working on. So make sure you come back regularly. I promise to do the same.
See you soon (figuratively speaking, of course),
~dave
Although I mention this on my other blogs, I wanted to mention it here very briefly. Every year, UCLA becomes the base for the LA Times Festival of Books. For two days, the campus teems with authors, publishers, and discounted books. Among the many publishers in attendance, several are likely to provide foreign language books in some for or another, including:
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Since this blog has just started, why not start these tips at the beginning of the language learning process? Before opening your first book, before listening to your first cassette or CD, before uttering your first word, you’ve got to start out with the right attitude.
Granted, if you’ve already opened, listened, or uttered, it’s still not too late to improve your attitude. That is, if it’s holding you back.
I won’t lie: learning a language is a lot of work. And it can be challenging at times, even for those of us who take immense pleasure in learning foreign languages. But it can be done.
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Over the next 17 years,* I’ll be posting various tips on how to learn foreign languages. Please note that these tips are mostly based on personal experience, although I might throw in something that might have helped others more than it has me. And although these tips will be numbered, they’re not meant to be followed in numerical order. And not all of them need to be followed.
While working on a page for another blog, I found myself using the expression "bated breath." This one always bugs me because I know I'm spelling it right, but I always have to look it up because I just don't trust that darn word "bated." Where did it come from? Can I bate someone or something? If not, could I have a hundred years ago? Was it short for something? I can only think of a few words that end in "bate," and very few seemed logical or even appropriate.
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A big hello, salve, buenos dias, namaste, konnichi-wa, and sawaat-di krap from Polyglots Anonymous! We're finally up and running, and in the following days, we'll be posting various articles on foreign languages, where to find them, and how to learn them. If you're a language lover, or even a language liker, we hope to provide content that you'll enjoy and benefit from.
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