A Language Learning Tale

Listen on YouTube: YouTube Link Listen on Spotify: Spotify Link 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… Some Ways to Learn a Language by Yourself How you go about learning a language by yourself will probably depend on what you want to use it for. If it’s just to go on holiday, it won’t need to be as difficult, or intense, as if you want to learn everything possible about the language. So, first, think about this. What do you want, or need, to learn to achieve your objective? Then, you can get started. This will also partly depend upon whether you’re starting from scratch, or refreshing a language that you may have learned at school. I believe the easiest way to start learning a language is to use an app that teaches you. Which one you use, depends on several things. Can you afford t...

Listen on YouTube: YouTube Link Listen on Spotify: Spotify Link   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, 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…   BECOMING LIKE SHERLOCK   “ It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ”   That’s a quote from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I think it fits well with language learning. If you know anything about the character of Sherlock Holmes, you’ll know that he’s very good at noticing the little details. He can glean a lot of information from them, often a lot more than he gleans from the clues that are staring him in the face. These help him to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. Language is definitely a puzzle that you have to put together, don’t you think? There is something called the No...

EPISODE 3 Find this episode on Spotify at: Episode 3: I'll Have One Language to Go, Please Find this episode on YouTube at:  Episode 3: I'll Have One Language to Go, Please Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process, in real time, and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the ALLT Podcast, which stands for A Language Learning Tale. Today I’m talking about… I’ll Have One Language to Go, Please, or, What is Language Acquisition and Why is it Good for Learning Foreign Languages? Language acquisition is a term bandied around by many language learners when talking about learning a foreign language. But where does this term come from and what does it mean, specifically for learning foreign languages? Well, in general, acquisition means to obtain something, like buying it in a shop, but acquisition in the language context, simply means learning a skill. So, you acquire the skill of bein...