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Six tips for keeping going with your language learning (and an update on my Basque)

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You may be several months - or years - into learning a language and it still feels like you're a long way from fluency.  You may even be wondering whether you're making any progress at all.  If so, welcome to the club! I've been learning Basque two and a half years now.  In the last few months, there's been a real feeling of progress, but it's still slow and I was trudging … [Read more...]

Language Show Live – a review

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Language Show Live is a kind of "trade fair meets educational event" which styles itself as "Europe's leading annual event for people passionate about languages".  I attended for the first time in 2013.  Again in 2014, the event took place one Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the middle of October.  The venue: the historic Olympia Exhibition Centre  in London's West Kensington … [Read more...]

Basque Add1Challenge: 3 weeks in….

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It's three weeks tomorrow since the beginning of the three-month Add1Challenge, here, later than expected, is the first of my promised progress updates.  What have I been doing? The main development in my approach to Basque this summer has been working with native speakers on Skype.  I have never done this before but I was keen to keep going during the summer … [Read more...]

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