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Keeping up Motivation when Learning a Language
Learning a language should be an enjoyable experience but commitment and dedication are also required. Here are a few suggestions to help keep you motivated at each stage of learning a language. 1. Starting a new language One of the biggest challenges for most people...
Presentation at the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü, Turkey
We are very pleased to announce that we will be presenting our HandsOnTurkish project at the “Uluslararası Türkçenin Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğretimi Sempozyumu” (Symposium for the Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language) which is being held at the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü...
HandsOnTurkish Project meeting – Amsterdam
HandsOnTurkish is an interactive, 'hands-on' eLearning course of Turkish primarily for vocational and business learners. The project was awarded European funding based on the growing importance of Turkey on the world stage, the growing Turkish economy and thus the new...
Language Learning Strategies For The Independent Learner
Trainee teachers are often initially guided by a set of principles when trying to design compelling and useful learning materials. There is no reason why these principles can’t also be employed by students wishing to improve upon their independent study techniques....
Three Tips On Improving Pronunciation Practice
One of the most frequently ignored or overlooked aspects of learning another language is the pronunciation. The temptation is often to focus on ‘sounding like a native’, rather than objectively looking at possible problems of comprehension or misunderstanding that...
Trialling the new Business Turkish Course
The new HandsOnTurkish course has been under construction for almost a year, although the development only started in earnest at the start of the summer after the planning stage. After developing the early prototypes which were tested on a small scale, we are now...
Update to the Danish Language Notes
Whilst fixing a small bug in the LearnOasis Danish language notes, we added the function to pause and restart the notes. The language notes can be found in module 5 of every unit and discuss the key aspects of the language used within the dialogues. The notes are...
How to learn Arabic Online?
How to learn Arabic Online? In this article we're going to focus on what it's like learning the Arabic language., particularly online When learning any language, a good place to start is your reason and motivation. Here are a few questions to think about: - are you...
Do you want to learn Turkish online?
Turkey is beginning to emerge as an important trading partner and political force on the World stage. Historically, the country has always been at the crossroads of culture and business, literally bridging Europe, Asia and the Middle-East. Recently, though, the...
Agassiz and the fish by Ezra Pound
Read carefully this story of Agassiz as retold by Ezra Pound in the "ABC of Reading" (1934, New Directions). "The proper METHOD for studying poetry and good letters is the method of contemporary biologists, that is careful first-hand examination of the matter, and...
Hungarian Online Course has been Updated
We recently updated the Hungarian online course. The latest update includes some bug fixes and a new interface design. After redeveloping the website, the free Hungarian course was offline for a short while. Free online Hungarian course The full online course is now...
What to look for in a language course?
Syllabus, topics, levels and learning goals Another problem for learners when looking for a course is the syllabus. Look in a search engine for a language course and you could get a site from the USA, Japan, or even Australia. So what syllabus is a course based on? A...