A Language Learning Tale

 Listen on Spotify here: Learning the Françiano Way  Listen on YouTube here: Learning the Françiano Way   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Learning the Françiano Way, Or, How’s the Italian to French Going? So, how is my Italian to French learning journey going? Plain sailing, or am I stuck in port without a paddle? Yes, I know that’s an idiom mismatch, but that’s where my brain went. Well, I have had a number of issues plaguing my progress, which is to be expected. Let’s start with the big one first. Questions in French. Questions in French seem much more complicated than they are in Italian. I don’t remember them being quite so difficult first time around, but that may be because of how I’m doing my learning and that my detailed memory doesn’t stretch that far,...

Link on Spotify: Can I Have Some Glue, Please? Link on YouTube: Can I Have Some Glue, Please?   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Can I Have Some Glue, Please? Or, How Do I Get vocabulary to Stick in My Brain? Ah, the age-old problem of learning vocabulary. A thorny problem, indeed. Let us time travel again, back to the halcyon days … erm, the really stressful days of school and learning vocab. Let’s paint a little picture. Step 1: Go to language lesson. Step 2: Listen to teacher and diligently write down all the new vocabulary introduced in said lesson. Step 3: Do homework, trying to learn the list of vocabulary you wrote down, by heart, by staring at it. Step 4 - Version 1: Go to next language lesson. Keep your head down so you don’t get picked by the teacher. You all g...

 Link on Spotify: This is How I Like Learning Link on YouTube: This is How I Like Learning Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… This is How I like learning. Or, What? We Don’t Have Different Learning Styles? For a long time it was put forward that people had different styles of learning and then the powers that be told us that we don’t. I’m sorry? What was that again? We all learn in the same way? What? Yes, that’s what scientists say now. We all learn in the same way. But let’s back up a little. What are, or rather were, these learning styles, anyway? Warning: Very oversimplified and not terribly technical scientific explanations coming up. Learning styles were seen as a way to find out the perfect method for each individual student to learn a subject, which was popularised,...

Podcast on Spotify: Please Don't Make Me Analyse Everything Podcast on YouTube: Please Don't Make Me Analyse Everything Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Please Don’t Make Me Analyse Everything, or, Is Reading Literary Works Good for Learning Languages? In a previous podcast, I mentioned that, in my language studies, when I was a teenager, we started reading the kinds of books that would be referred to as literary during class for my A Levels. I want to talk about that a little today. I don’t know if pupils are still taught about literature in foreign languages in school, before the level of a University Degree, but I’m guessing they probably are.  So, those of you who follow me on YouTube may know that I’m actually a writer in English (and I’m trying it out in Italian...