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M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: English is so easy to learn and Spanish is very difficult - 8 views

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    Read this article and find out why native speakers of English have a great advantage. English: The Inescapable Language — The American Magazine
Luciano Ferrer

The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic | Open Culture - 0 views

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    "Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the w
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    "Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the w
Francisco Gascón Moya

Using English for Academic Purposes - 2 views

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    Using English for Academic Purposes. A guide for Higher Education students. Includes theoretical approach, tips, materials and links.
Francisco Gascón Moya

The evolution of English - 6 views

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    The evolution of English: an interactive timeline by British Library
Francisco Gascón Moya

Kalinago English: 10 Speaking English Activities using TED.com - 3 views

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    Few simple activities you can do with the video clip you're about to show/ are showing/ have shown to your students without designing a full worksheet
Juanmi Muñoz

English-attack se abre al público que quiere aprender inglés por Internet - 4 views

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    "English-attack se abre al público que quiere aprender inglés por Internet"
M Jesús García San Martín

Learn English as a celebration - 1 views

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    Advanced ESL listening comprehension activity.
Francisco Gascón Moya

Test Your Vocabulary - 6 views

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    Test your vocabulary in English. How many words do you know?
M Jesús García San Martín

A Door To English - 5 views

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    Pilar Blanco, profesora de inglés en el S.I.E.S. Rincón de Soto nos abre las puertas de su casa y nos muestra sus recursos y materiales para inglés en ESO.
M Jesús García San Martín

English teacher - 4 views

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    El blog de aula de Marga Alfonso, Galicia, para su alumnado de inglés de ESO y Bachillerato.
M Jesús García San Martín

Cañada Blanch English Secondary - 3 views

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    María J. Serrano, Catedrática de Inglés y Jefe de Departamento en el Instituto Español "Cañada Blanch" de Londres, nos presenta su blog.
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: Languages in the world - 3 views

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    B2 ESL learner's viewpoints on languages in the world.
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: Auld Lang Syne - 4 views

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