This is the crux: foreign language ability is not just about converting information from one format to another. It's about human relationships.
Group items tagged
My Languages: The Language Show: Lots to Think About! - 8 views
The Langwitch Chronicles: Thinking outside the classroom box with Chris Fuller - 0 views
BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF - 4 views
-
A link sent to me by the wonderful Jaclyn C. "The above activity (webpage) is in English, but I think it could be useful to label in German. Ich habe Fluegel und Pfoten. Mein Fluegel sind schwarz und orange. Ich habe Horner. Ich bin schoen aber gefahrlich. Ich habe kein…… Viel Spass Jaclyn"
Electronic translators for language learning - 0 views
-
Many language students like to use electronic translators. I teach English and over the years I have watched them grow in popularity. Students love them, there is no doubt about that. Teachers are not so united. Some think they are great, and others hate them. For me, it has taken some time to befriend them, and work out how to take advantage of them in the classroom.
My Languages: Thinking Skills in Languages Lessons to Develop Active Learners - 0 views
Learner Evolution ~ Chris Harte: Languages Show 2009 - Are we thinking? Then I'll begin... - 7 views
learn c programming online course - 0 views
-
Learn to program in C online - how to think like a C programmer. control statements, loops, functions, basic i/o. Solid programming techniques emphasized.
My Languages: Review: Think Bilingual-The First Language Immersion App? - 4 views
Think and Dream in English: The Sunshine Award! - 2 views
1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters - 0 views
-
Tongue twisters in more languages than you could think of. Most of them have translations to go with the 'twisters'. A bit of fun when you've got some time to go beyond the curriculum.
technoLanguages Ning Network - 58 views
Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I have created a technoLanguages ning network. technoLanguages has a few groups around the place - blog, here on diigo, flicr etc and so I though...
Building Peace - Thoughts on Modern Conflict - 0 views
-
-
A few years ago, while General Abizaid was still CENTCOM commander, I flew a C-17 into Cairo to pick him up after a meeting. While I sat on the parking ramp with my engines running, knocking out checklists for the next takeoff, I looked out the window and saw General Abizaid moving among a circle of grinning Egyptian military officers. He was shaking hands, talking, doing the kinds of things a combatant commander is supposed to do: keeping our alliances strong at a time when the situation in Iraq was critical. Because he is fluent in Arabic, I presume he was doing at least some of this in Arabic. I remember thinking, Wow. This is why language matters.
-
Language is extremely hard. We need as many language solutions as we can get, and technology certainly can and should help fill the gap. But no matter how good the technology gets, no matter how prevalent English becomes, old-fashioned speaking of a foreign language still matters.
1 - 14 of 14
Showing 20▼ items per page