Approaches to Reading Comprehension

Duanemarch/ Januar 13, 2016

Books, magazines, newspapers are available everywhere and are inexpensive tools. A lot of reading material – often with translations for selected vocabulary – is available on the Internet – often for free! Getting started You should, of course, start out simply if you are a beginner in the target language. You can find perhaps a children’s story or fairytale –

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What could a Language Self-Study Plan look like?

Duanemarch/ Januar 9, 2016

A – Set yourself a minimum goal of 7 (seven) new words or short phrases a day 1 -You can start by doing a Internet search of the 100 or 1,000 most common words in a language and compile a list. I did this for Spanish: I found a number of sites. I copied the lists onto Microsoft Word (for

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A Learning Method for Vocabulary – Index Cards

Duanemarch/ Januar 7, 2016

A method for anchoring vocabulary in your long term memory You need index cards (or something similar), a drawer or box that you can divide into compartments for holding the cards. Every day you will want to begin with 7 new words / phrases (see „Rule of Seven„). Start writing vocabulary cards – target language on one side, native language

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Personal Report – my NLP Certification

Duanemarch/ Januar 5, 2016

Ich have just received my NLP Master Practitioner Certification! NLP_Master_Certificate_3664 After having earned NLP Practitioner Certification in January 2016, I underwent certification training as a Master Practitioner in December 2015 and January 2016. Since it is about Neuro LINGUISTIC Programming, language and communication play a vital role. With NLP you can – among other things – learn to learn in

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Report – Learning Turkish

Duanemarch/ Januar 4, 2016

Due to a professional assignment in Turkey, I have been learning Turkish words and phrases, primarily using 17-Minute Languages as my training tool. When I normally approach a new language, I set out to learn grammar very early. I tend to be analytical with a language, and since the other languages I have learned (French, Italian, Spanish) are grammatically similar,

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