A Language Learning Tale

Podcast on YouTube: Link on YouTube Podcast on Spotify: Link on Spotify Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… L’histoire des langues parlées Yes, that was in French and today I’m discussing a short French audiobook on Spotify which is about languages and seeing how much I’ve understood. L’histoire des langues parlées is by Anne-Marie Deraspe. It’s only an  hour and nine minutes long and I set it to read at 0.8x speed. This is a book aimed at teens and I believe is a teaching text. If you´re learning French, and you have access to this book in a subscription service, you might want to give it a go. A link to the book on Spotify will be in the description. So, I’m expecting this will be mainly headline facts rather than a deep dive on the history of languages, given the length of...

Podcast on YouTube: Link for YouTube Podcast on Spotify: Link on Spotify Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Translating into Your Target Language So, I’ve talked previously about foreign languages and translation and I’ve said that it’s always best to translate from a foreign language into your own to get the best translation and that this is the most useful exercise, because you’re trying to understand how people who speak that language actually phrase things. I still stick by this. But that doesn’t mean that translating into a foreign language is a complete waste of time. You just can’t expect to get the results you would doing it the other way and if you’re doing it on your own, there’s no one to tell you whether you’ve got it right or wrong. But, maybe you have a valid reaso...