Basic Phrases with Pronunciation: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, and Swedish Available

Filed under Learning French, Learning Other Languages, Website by on June 19, 2013 at 2:46 am {no comments}

If you’d like to study basic phrases for French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, or Swedish, I’ve created new pages with the list of phrases and mp3s for each phrase (instead of one mp3 for all the phrases together). Now you can listen to each phrase individually before trying out the audio flashcards to test yourself.

 

 

Dutch and Danish will be coming next, and eventually I’d like to have audio on the Romance Languages Phrases and Germanic Languages Phrases pages as well.

Right now the mp3 player is flash so it won’t work on iOS but I’m looking into a small html5 player. Changing all of the code will take a long time though. In the meantime, you should still see a link to the mp3 if you’re using an Apple device and you can click on it to play it, however the Quicktime logo will appear so you can’t actually read and listen at the same time. When the mp3 has finished playing, Safari will automatically go back to the page (or at least it does on my iPod!)

So Much for the Asian Century: Loss of Language Programs at Australian Universities

Filed under Australia, Learning French, Learning Other Languages by on June 10, 2013 at 6:20 pm {2 comments}

The University of Canberra and Curtin University both recently announced that they would be cutting their language programs. At Canberra, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish will disappear while at Curtin, Japanese, Mandarin and a major in Asian Studies may be abandoned. These cuts are very unfortunate since it leaves these universities with no language classes or [...]

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iTunes U Materials and MOOCs Available in Languages Other than English

Filed under Learning French, Learning Other Languages by on June 5, 2013 at 12:33 am {no comments}

I recently noticed that iTunes U now lets you browse the courses by language. Finally! Previously you had to go to the list of universities and look for a certain institution, which may or may not have had any real content. Now you can simply select Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Catalan, Portuguese, Korean [...]

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South Australia Travel Videos in French

Filed under Australia, Learning French by on June 1, 2013 at 5:20 am {no comments}

Want to see how beautiful South Australia is and learn some French at the same time? The French-language travel site MonNuage.fr has a few videos of South Australia, including Adelaide, Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island. Here’s the one on Adelaide: South Australia is also called Australie Méridionale but that’s much harder to pronounce, so let’s [...]

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New French Listening Resources Videos with Transcripts

Filed under Learning French by on May 17, 2013 at 7:20 am {no comments}

The latest French Listening Resources video has been uploaded! This short clip is for beginners talking about family members and their ages. If you need the transcript, check out the Watch & Read page. There are seven more videos from Carole & Fabien on topics such as the house, typical meals, stores & fast food restaurants [...]

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Readlang + Podclub = My Latest Language Learning Obsession

Filed under Learning French, Learning Other Languages by on May 8, 2013 at 12:15 am {no comments}

Readlang by Steve Ridout is a new site (still in beta) which helps you learn foreign languages by reading and translating words you don’t know. You simply import text from any website, click on words you don’t know in order to translate them into another language, and save these words so you can review them [...]

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Upgrades and Updates on ielanguages.com: Let me know what to work on next

Filed under Website by on May 4, 2013 at 3:46 am {one comment}

First, I apologize if you had trouble accessing ielanguages.com the past week. My hosting company decided to throttle traffic and deny access from several IPs because of heavy usage while I was away last weekend. I have just upgraded to a Virtual Private Server so that hopefully won’t be a problem anymore. Everything should be [...]

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Holiday Weekend in Gold Coast, Queensland

Filed under Australia, Travelling by on April 30, 2013 at 5:49 am {one comment}

I flew up to Gold Coast last Wednesday to meet up with one of my oldest friends from Michigan. Jessica just finished her postdoc in Melbourne and is moving back to the US tomorrow, so this was our last trip together in Australia. Most people head to the GC either for the beaches or the [...]

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Free Children’s Books Apps in Foreign Languages (Text + Audio)

Filed under Learning French, Learning Other Languages by on April 13, 2013 at 3:20 am {one comment}

There are a lot of free language apps available nowadays but many of them are not very good or extensive. They tend to include some basic words or tourist phrases in flashcard format, but very few offer connected text (such as stories) in addition to pronunciation. Lately I’ve been looking for apps that include both [...]

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Conferences for Applied Linguistics, CALL, Language Teaching & Learning and French

Filed under PhD Research by on March 31, 2013 at 9:56 am {no comments}

If you’re interested in attending or presenting at conferences on applied linguistics, computer-assisted language learning, modern/foreign languages or French studies, here are some upcoming conferences. You still have time to submit abstracts for some of them. I plan on being in Wellington this November for the ALAA/ALANZ conference and Brisbane next August for the AILA [...]

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Why is Jennie no longer in France?

I created this blog in September 2006 when I moved to France from Michigan to teach English. Many of the earlier posts are about my personal life in France, dealing with culture shock, traveling in Europe and becoming fluent in French. In January 2010, I started focusing more on teaching and learning languages in general. In July 2011, I relocated to Australia to start my PhD in Applied Linguistics. Although I am no longer living in France, my research is on foreign language pedagogy and I teach French at the university so these themes appear most often on the blog. I also continue to post about traveling (though now my trips are usually in Australia) and being an American abroad.

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