Named in honour of one of the most historically renowned hyperpolyglots and a personal hero of mine, Cardinal Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti (1774 - 1849), this site is a small but ambitious project aimed at offering some unique foreign language learning tips from my own experience, travel advice, anecdotes, encouragement and another handy place for like-minded individuals to connect.
Duolingo is a free language-learning website and crowd-sourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that, as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate websites and other documents.
It is a way that teachers can provide an additional language learning source to their students, and once each lesson is completed, students read authentic sources and complete activities on the Internet from authentic web-based sources.
Well like a lot of people I've bought an iPad over the summer and I've been having my first taste of shopping for apps to extend the capabilities of the iPad. I've also been having a look at how some of these can be used for language learning, so I thought I would share with you a little bit of information about the first few apps I've tried.
Though the upper and middle schools at Bolles have selfcontained language
labs, Bolles, like Lakeside, also integrates classroom technology into language
instruction, using Toshiba
tablet PCs. “Our teachers direct student attention to the corrections of a
student’s work, or color-code parts of speech for our first-year students,”
Marks explains. “They will also use the tablets within the language lab for
administering assessments or supplementing an oral lesson.”