August 27: Uploaded first unit of Foreign Service Institute Swedish Basic Course plus accompanying mp3s.
August 22: Uploaded six more units of the Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course. Ten units, plus the preliminary unit, are now available as HTML along with their MP3s that you can listen to online or download.
August 19: Created fill-in-the-blank (cloze) exercises for the first 20 French Listening Resources.
August 15: Added more vocabulary and sample sentences to the various Italian tutorials, in addition to creating new sections: 66, 71, 99, and 100. Also working on Italian VI.
August 5: Added a few more mp3s to Italian II Tutorial on the present perfect and irregular past participles.
August 3: The first two mp3s for the Portuguese tutorials are now uploaded, thanks to Olavo Germano de Sousa Neto, who is also the author of the tutorials. I've split the Portuguese tutorial into two pages, added an index page, and an mp3 page.
July 29: Created MP3 pages for the rest of the language tutorials that have audio to download: Italian, German, Spanish and Russian
July 27: Updated Italian tutorials with new vocabulary and sample sentences. Also uploaded new French Listening mp3.
July 10: Uploaded Italian Realia from trip to Bassano del Grappa and another French Listening mp3 recorded in Italy.
June 29: Updated French Listening Resources with another eavesdropping mp3 and added more vocabulary to Informal French & Slang.
June 15: Uploaded more mp3s to Italian I and Italian II Tutorials: # 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.
June 14: Uploaded travel photos from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Strasbourg, as well as Dutch, German and French realia. Also updated French Driver's License page to include new info about the exchange with Texas.
May 28: Uploaded a few more mp3s for Italian II Tutorial
May 21: Updated French Realia
May 18: Uploaded Copenhagen photo album, Danish realia, and Copenhagen Travel Tips
May 11: Added mp3s to German I Tutorial and updated Travel Tips on Split & Dubrovnik, Croatia
May 10: Uploaded Croatia photo album and Croatian realia resources
April 30: Uploaded part 4 of interview with Mamie to French Listening Resources
April 21: Uploaded part 3 of interview with Mamie to French Listening Resources
April 20: Uploaded more Russian and Italian mp3s and separated Russian tutorial into 3 pages so hopefully they will load faster.
April 14: Another part of the interview with Mamie uploaded to French Listening podcast.
April 13: Added first mp3 of basic phrases to Italian I Tutorial. Grazie Corrado!
April 10: Added 8 more mp3s to Spanish I Tutorial.
April 6: New Informal French video!
April 5: Added 16 more Russian mp3s and a new French listening mp3.
March 27: Thanks to Marina, we now have some mp3s for the Russian tutorial! I'm also working on reformatting the tables so that the vocabulary lines up better.
March 24: New blog version of French Listening Resources podcast: ielanguages.com/podcast
March 13: Finally finished transcribing the last 3 French Listening Resources mp3s (and created individual pages for each one) and uploaded a new informal French video to Youtube. Don't forget to subscribe to my Youtube channel!
February 26: Now available for purchase! French Language Tutorial as an e-book or paperback book. All of the original French tutorials (1-7) + French phonetics and IPA transcriptions for pronunciation, either in PDF format or as a coil-bound paperback. Please visit the Store for more details and to order online.
February 17: Created individual pages for each vocabulary category on Germanic Languages page and each verb on Germanic Verbs page as well as for Romance Vocabulary and Romance Verbs pages.
February 16: Updated some Italian vocabulary on the Romance Languages Vocabulary page, in the sections on Common Phrases, Question Words, Weather, Time, Prepositions and Adverbs. Thank you Corrado!
February 15: Just a reminder that you can find me on several networking sites as well: Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, FriendFeed, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Vimeo and my French Listening podcast is available through iTunes.
February 12: I'm going to try to continue updating the French Listening Resources mp3s every weekend. Ma Journée (Daily Routine) was just added today, as well as the text file and online transcript.
February 7: Uploaded photo album of Chambéry, France.
February 2: Added some new slang vocabulary to the Informal French & Slang page. Also corrected the Idioms: Colors & Numbers Exercise.
January 30: Created individual pages for French Listening Resources so that you can listen to the mp3 and read along with the transcript online.
January 29: You can also subscribe to the French Listening mp3s as a podcast through iTunes. Click here to open iTunes and subscribe.
January 24: Created a new RSS feed for the mp3s on the French Listening Resources page.
January 23: I'm still working on adding more IPA transcriptions to the French II & III Tutorials. Also added seven more mp3s - but only three transcripts so far - to French Listening Resources.
January 17: Added another mp3 and transcript to French Listening Resources and uploaded first mp3 for Spanish I tutorial. Thanks to Renzo for the recording!
January 11: Added flashcards and exercises for the first 3 sections in French II Tutorial.
January 9: Converted most of the pronunciation guidelines on the French II Tutorial to standard IPA symbols.
2009
December 31: Uploaded French Listening Resources page where you can download mp3s and transcripts of natural French speech on a variety of topics. I plan to add many more mp3s as well as listening exercises in the future.
November 22: IE-Languages has joined Twitter: http://twitter.com/ielanguages or subscribe to the RSS feed
October 29: Added Flashcards and Exercises for Spanish I Tutorial.
October 27: Updated the French I Tutorial with audio flashcards for the rest of the vocabulary sections and finished the IPA transcriptions.
October 22: Updated application instructions on Assistants in France guide.
September 20: Uploaded the Useful Words Audio Flashcards for French I.
September 14: Updated the Basic Phrases section of French I, and uploaded the Basic Phrases Audio Flashcards.
September 12: Uploaded lessons 04, 05 and 06 (and their mp3s) of Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course.
September 9: Uploaded audio flashcards & exercises for FSI Italian FAST Lesson 01.
September 8: Uploaded audio flashcards & exercises for FSI Italian FAST Preliminary lesson.
August 19: Finished French & Italian IV and French & German III tutorials.
August 14: Uploaded lesson 03 (and mp3) of Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course. Also updated info on Grenoble page on how to get from Geneva and Lyon airports to Annecy, Chambéry and/or Grenoble and uploaded Washington, D.C. photo album.
July 4: Uploaded lesson 02 (and mp3) of Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course.
June 30: Uploaded lesson 01 (and mp3) of Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course. Also added style sheet for handheld devices so viewing the website will be easier on cellphones.
June 28: Uploaded the preliminary lesson (and mp3) of Foreign Service Institute Italian FAST Course, as well as the table of contents and preface/introduction.
June 26: New template design for site. Also re-did the exercises and am working on more. If you see a dead link or strange character in the text (some pages were not encoded correctly with UTF-8), please let me know.
June 23: Uploaded 4 photo albums from my latest travels in Italy, France and Turkey to the Photos page.
June 19: Updated Assistants in France Guide with new info about changes to long-stay visa and residence permit procedures.
May 8: Uploaded Unit 4 of FSI German Basic Course and its mp3s. I'm working on proofreading and correcting some spelling mistakes in the FSI pages, especially the missing accented characters.
April 28: Made a few corrections to Portuguese and Croatian tutorials.
April 23: Updated some info on Guide for English Assistants pertaining to IUFM and transportation reimbursement. Uploaded Dominican Republic photo album to Travel Photos.
April 4: Re-uploaded the French zip files of mp3s for French I-V, and added new zip files for French VI & VII.
March 29: Created some audio flashcard sets for learning the départements of France and their numbers and regions.
March 28: Uploaded the rest of the mp3s for French VII.
February 17: Uploaded the interactive exercises for the Italian I Tutorial, made with Hot Potatoes.
February 5: I've been deleting the dead links on the Language Links page and adding new ones. I'm still working on creating more interactive exercises for the language tutorials.
January 11: Added navigation buttons to the top that lead to major sections of the site. Also uploaded some papers I wrote for my Linguistics courses.
January 9: Uploaded new French Phonetics page, with Listening & Repetition Exercises. Also re-recorded the pronunciation mp3 (#2 on French I).
January 2: Updated information about subjunctive mood, and added more vocabulary to the end of Italian 5.
2008
December 23: Updated some French vocabulary in French VII. Still working on fixing some accented characters that disappeared when I changed to UTF-8 encoding.
December 19: Updated CSS, so there may be some spacing issues until I get the code fixed (especially in Internet Explorer) Printing should be easier now; I've removed the graphic and sidebar so just the text will print.
November 14: Updated Guide for English Language Assistants with application instructions and links for 2009-10 school year.
November 7: Created interactive exercises for French I Tutorial with Hot Potatoes.
October 18: Corrected some vocabulary in German tutorials (thanks Petr!) and uploaded 3 ESL lesson plans.
September 23: I'm now using Yahoo Media Player's javascript so that you can listen to the mp3s directly from the site instead of downloading them.
September 21: Uploaded first page of Norwegian tutorial,
though it is not yet linked site-wide. Also added a few links to Links page.
September 16: Uploaded unit 3 of the FSI German Basic Course.
September 14: Uploaded more mp3s for French tutorials (#90 & 91 in French V and the first 15 in French VII).
September 10: Added a few more private lessons to Lesson Plans page and added more vocabulary to French VII.
August 30: Added Unit 2 of FSI German Basic Course.
August 26: Added the remaining parts to Unit 2 of FSI French Course, and uploaded new health insurance page for Expats in France.
August 22: Added FSI HTML Project page, as well as Unit 2 (parts 1-2) of French and all of Unit 1 of German.
August 18: Added more IPA symbols to French
I, uploaded new French Driver's License & Driving in France page,
added more resources to the Realia page. Also
uploaded Foreign Service Institute
French, but it is not yet linked within
the site.
August 8: Added more IPA symbols to French I.
August 6: Added IPA symbols to French Basic Phrases (thank you Myles) and added some interactive vocabulary & verb exercises to German I Tutorial.
August 2: New layout again! Hopefully the collapsible menu will make navigating the site easier. Divided Romance Languages page into two: Romance Vocabulary and Romance Verbs, added Contribute page, and regrouped sections. Also deleted the previous navigation pages as they are no longer necessary.
July 30: Added more photos to Annecy, France album, added more French realia, updated vocabulary in German I and made a few updates in the Assistants Guide and Links.
July 26: Updated French & German Comparative Tutorial III.
July 11: Uploaded Provence photos.
July 1: Updated Unemployment & Lecteur/Lectrice info on Assistants Guide Part 5, started sorting Language Links, and added the Realia page of authentic language resources.
June 28: Updated my CV and uploaded Southern Germany photos.
June 16: Uploaded 38 English mp3s to ESL Lesson Plans page.
June 14: Uploaded Swedish III (but it is not completely finished yet!)
June 13: Updated French Slang vocabulary and added more interactive exercises.
June 11: Updated information about PACSing and getting a CDS in France. Also updated French slang vocabulary.
June 8: Transferred my blog to my domain! I'm new to Wordpress, so I'm still figuring things out.
June 6: Added more mp3s to French V and French VI. Added three more ESL activities to Lesson Plans page: cities, tourism and weather in the US.
June 1: Added Informal French & Slang exercises (made with Hot Potatoes).
May 29: Added another 5 activities to Lesson Plans page and updated Quebecois vocabulary on French VI.
May 24: Added links to Links page and 5 new activities to Lesson Plans page.
May 6: Updated prepositions, verbs, conjunctions and word order on Swedish II. Currently working on Swedish III.
May 3: Divided Dutch and Swedish tutorials into smaller pages; added Index page for Swedish.
April 16: New header at the top. Also created Latest Updates page (you are here!) and Site Map.
April 14: Uploaded zip files of mp3s for easier downloading.
April 7: Uploaded 14 new mp3s to French V Tutorial
April 6: Updated some French mp3s (# 23, 40, 43, 66 and 70)
March 30: Updated French & German Comparative Tutorial.
