Language Marathon International

12/02/2017

5 words are something.
Remember that something is better than nothing.
Learning is a process and it takes time!
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08/02/2017

Were you struggling with English, Spanish, Japanese or Korean grammar? Looking for a good book to explain small nuances between different aspects of English?
Then you should have a look at English Grammar In Use by Raymond Murphy.

Raymond Murphy is an author of the world's best-selling grammar books for learners of English. Raymond taught English as a foreign language for 17 years in Germany and the UK, but since 1988 has been a full-time writer of EFL materials. You can trust him for sure!

In this book, there are units divided by topics. So if you need to work on some specific topic, just look at the contents and find the subsection that contains what you would like to work on. If you are going to work on your grammar seriously, you should open a book and start studying from the beginning.

Readers love this book because of its accuracy and simplicity. Topics are explained in very simple words, even the most difficult aspects of the language.

I personally love English Grammar In Use because of its easy way of explanation and combination of theory and practice. At the end of a book, you will find an answer key to check yourself (actually depends on the version so try to find with keys).
At the end of every topic, there are even exercises for you to work on to prove what you have learned.
If this writing and teaching style works well for you, there are even additional books by the same author that can help with vocabulary and other parts of the language.

Therefore, English Grammar In Use by Raymond Murphy is the best grammar book for me and I hope you will use and love it as well!

02/02/2017

Hey Language Learners!
How are you in this 2017 year?
Still learning languages? I hope your answer is YES!
If you are not motivated enough and don't start your learning, please start do it NOW!
Let this post to be a little kick in the pants!
Go and learn 5 new words right now. And share these words with everybody in comments.
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14/12/2016

How I learned 500+ words in Spanish and started my first 100 of Chinese

I'm very keen on learning languages effectively and fast. And today I would like to tell you about 1 very useful tool of learning new words. For sure some of you know about it. MEMRISE.

I found this resource quite helpful for my studying. However there are some disadvantages as well.
+ "Spaced repetition" is main method of Memrise. Firstly you study a word and remember it. Then in 3-4 hours you repeat this word. Afterwards in a day, and in 4 days. These circles let you know this word no only in short-term memory but also in long-term! It's number 1 rule for me in learning languages. I repeat all words all the time. Even with preschoolers I use this method and it works perfectly.
+ I just adore their way of "elaborate encoding". Thanks to it we don't have to just DRILL word 100 times till you learn it. It gives associations and your process of learning turns to fun easy way
- Sometimes there are no associations (( And you have to drill it. Or make an association by yourself.
- Wrong meaning of vocabulary. From time to time there is some meanings of words which just wrong. I saw it in Chinese, Spanish and Russian. Kinda big minus.

But even though there are disadvantages of using Memrise.com I'm in love with their website and for me this is the best service for learning new words. Highly recommend it.

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11/12/2016

Video about me learning languages.
How I based 'Language Marathon' project.
Funny bird was flying there as well.
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03/12/2016

Also Hello Weekend!
Use this day for your favourite language.
I'm going to practice with native speakers my English and Spanish :)
What are you going to do?
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25/11/2016

Are you enjoying your studying process? Look at the picture! And start studying for fun right now!
It's easy :)
Useful? Like and share!

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17/11/2016

Right? ;)
What are you waiting for?
P.S. In Russian alphabet there are 33 letters. So we can try more!

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14/11/2016

HELP!
My name is Anna and I'm from Russia.
I'm a teacher of Russian and English as a second language.
And I love learning languages. I know how to do it easily and effectivly.
And I have a feeling that I'm ready to learn a new language!
I know Russian, English, Spanish and Japanese (a little bit).
What language will YOU recommend me? And why?

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11/11/2016

What do you think? Do you feel home if you know languages?

06/11/2016

THE BEST LANGUAGE AUDIO COURSE 2.0
..continious of an article about Pimsleur audio course. 1st part you can read below :)

3) The dictionary core
Linguists have proven that list of few words covers the most in any language. For example, in English a set of the 2000 most frequent words of 80% in the text. In Pimsleur courses each level contains approximately 500 words.
By Pimsleur method grammar is taught not separately!

4) Organic Training
Why do we learn language? To understand natural speech and to speak.Organic training is a training which takes place parallelly to grammar, words and pronunciations. Also using audio courses you'll learn how to speak without an accent.

I am now learning 2nd course in Spanish at Pimsleur method. And Im very happy. Training for me i easy, quickly and I enjoy it. I can already hold a conversation with native speakers using new phrases. And I know how to ask ¿Cómo se dice ...? by heart! Very useful :)

Even though it costs a lot (more then 100$) I have all languages for free and ready to share with students who join second !

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04/11/2016

Today I wrote an article about 1 of the best Course for learning foreign languages! Here is the first part. If you want the rest of the article, LIKE this one :)

Course on the Pimsleur method.

On this Audiocourses people from all over the world studying different languages. The most popular audio-based course (I checked it for myself!!!) is very effective.

You can learn English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and many others. However, they are explained in English, but high level of English is not required, especially for the first lessons.

What is so special in this method is and why it's so popular around the world?

Dr. Pimsleur Method consists of 4 principles:

1) Anticipation
Usually we are asked to repeat after the speaker or lecturer. Pimsleur developed the technique of "call and response", where the student firstly independently translates the phrase, and only after own version Doc gives the answer. This is an active learning, firstly you need to think, answer and then to know the right answer.

2) Rrepetition
it is a method of repetition of words studied at increasing intervals. For example, if a student wants to learn the word deux (two in french.), he repeats it a few seconds for the first time at the beginning, then a second time in a few minutes, then a few hours later, and then a few days later. Thanks to this new words are driven into long-term memory.

!!! Even though it costs a lot (more then $100) I have all languages for free and ready to share with students who join second !

The second part of the article is going to be soon!

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