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 [...]
Full Story »About Jennie
Website: http://www.ielanguages.com
Jennie has written 661 articles so far, you can find them below.
Readlang + Podclub = My Latest Language Learning Obsession
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 [...]
Full Story »Upgrades and Updates on ielanguages.com: Let me know what to work on next
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 [...]
Full Story »Holiday Weekend in Gold Coast, Queensland
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 [...]
Full Story »Free Children’s Books Apps in Foreign Languages (Text + Audio)
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 [...]
Full Story »Conferences for Applied Linguistics, CALL, Language Teaching & Learning and French
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 [...]
Full Story »Dora will help you learn half a dozen languages
I often buy DVDs from the European Amazon stores to ensure that I will have a choice of at least one or two other subtitled/dubbed languages besides the original language. I’m not sure how, but I came across Dora the Explorer DVDs at the German Amazon and noticed that they offered FIVE languages, or at [...]
Full Story »Do some academics look down on other academics as well as non-academics?
A recent post on The Thesis Whisperer, a blog designed to help research students in Australia, has been quite popular this past month. The title? Academic assholes and the circle of niceness Luckily, I have not personally experienced any aggressive or arrogant behavior at the universities I have attended in the US or Australia. My [...]
Full Story »English Teaching Opportunities in France, Spain and Germany for 2013
If you’re interested in teaching English in Europe later this year, here are a few jobs: FRANCE Added May 11: Maître de langues in English at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, to begin in September 2013. Native speaker of English and Master’s degree required. Send lettre de motivation and CV to andre dot [...]
Full Story »Death of a language website: fsi-language-courses.org [UPDATED: It's back online and there are at least 3 mirror sites]
UPDATE: The site is back online!!! All of the files are also available at fsi.antibozo.net, fsi-languages.yojik.eu, or www.livelingua.com/fsi-language-courses.php, or you can use this torrent if you’d like to download everything. If anyone knows what happened to fsi-language-courses.org, please let me know! It was the site that included all of the Foreign Service Institute courses in the [...]
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