Kathryn Hunter

Tag: language

  • Language Learning Tips: Speaking

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    Speaking Before we get into the different ways you can practice speaking, I want to talk a bit about nerves and frustration. It’s easy to feel afraid of sounding stupid. When we start out, our vocabularies are limited, and we need to use simple sentence structures. Unfortunately what we often want to express complex ideas…

  • Language Learning Tips: Listening

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    Listening First, I want to start with the idea that listening and understanding are two different things. Obviously they are connected, but as learners, we’ve got to remember that listening does not mean you’ll immediately understand, no matter how much reading and writing you’ve previously done in your target language. The first step is really just…

  • Language Learning Tips: Writing

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    Writing Last week in this language learning series we talked about ways to practice and improve our reading in other languages. Now, on to writing. Once again, I’m going to assume you know the writing system of your target language. If not, you’ll need to run some searches, like “touch type (language)” and “writing worksheets…

  • Language Learning Tips: Reading

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    My Love of Languages I love learning languages. To the point where I often spend more time playing with Swedish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Russian than I do working. Additionally, I’m looking at Hindi and Hebrew, trying to decide how to bring them into the fold without having to find a mythological artifact to…