J’aime mon accent, et toi?

Ceci est un poème de Miguel Zamacoïs, romancier, auteur dramatique, poète et journaliste français.  On parle toujours des accents, on juge les personnes selon leurs accents, mais nos accents sont plus que des mots prononcés d’une certaine manière, intonations “différentes”…: c’est notre invisible bagage, le parler de chez soi qu’on emporte en voyage. People talk […]

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Language acquisition versus language learning

  What is the difference between language acquisition and language learning.   Some people use the term of language acquisition for all the phases that lead to language fluency, including learning to read and write. Others use the term of language learning even for babies and very young, pre-school children. – But there is a […]

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Impara l’italiano cantando

Imparare un’altra lingua si può in modi diversi. Personalmente ho fatto l’esperienza che ascoltando musica aiuta molto a comprendere l’intonazione, ad apprendere vocabolario. Ed è un modo molto piacevole per imparare la lingua. Canzoni sono poesia. Le parole in rima ripetute più volte ed accompagnate dalla musica aiutano a memorizzarle meglio. Alcune canzoni hanno un […]

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Dutch language resources

The best way to learn Dutch is to fully immerse into the language and join the worldwide 23 million native speakers in the Netherlands, Flanders, Suriname, or the 4 million people who speak Dutch as a second or foreign language. You can also start with listening to a local radio (online), watch local TV, get in contact […]

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