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Adults Do Not Learn Languages Just Like Babies

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Nov 13, 2009, 11:01 am
[Photo credit] The affirmative variety of this statement is one of those things I either see suggested, or outright claimed, in various venues of language learning (ooh, double consonance), whether i...
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Comprehensive Spanish Grammar Summary

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Nov 11, 2009, 4:18 pm
[Photo credit] Click here for a very comprehensive Spanish grammar summary, provided by Living Language. It's got everything from pronunciation, spelling, and punctuation to gender, articles, adje...
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Hindi Script Tutor

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Nov 10, 2009, 11:27 am
[Photo credit] This Devanagari script tutor is a great online tool for students of Hindi (or other languages using the Devanagari script, of course.) It breaks down the consonants, vowels, and conjunc...
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Cool Online Language Resource

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Nov 8, 2009, 2:37 pm
Check out the bab.la language portal for dictionaries, translation tools, games, quizzes, vocabulary lessons, and a bunch of other stuff I haven't gotten to yet. The lessons seem limited to vocabu...
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Yankees Fans, Deixis, and The Canyon of Heroes

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Nov 6, 2009, 9:12 am
[Photo credit] This morning, on my way to work, I learned that you can clear out an entire train with a deictic expression. For non-linguists, deixis (dike-siss) refers to words, phrases, or even morp...
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In Defense of George H. W. Bush

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Oct 21, 2009, 12:40 pm
[Photo credit] I never thought I'd type such a thing, but a) I'm talking about Daddy, not Junior, and b) I'll restrict myself to language issues. As reported here, Bush the Elder is not pl...
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Learning to Love Grammar

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Oct 17, 2009, 2:35 pm
[Photo credit] Say the sentence in (1) to yourself a few times. It's in Tagalog, and its translation is given underneath. Don't get too hung up on pronunciation; the only thing that might trip...
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Prince Edward Island French

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Oct 13, 2009, 5:48 am
I must be on a Canada kick this morning, because I'm back in the Maritimes, not too too far from the Viking settlement at Vinland. This time it's Prince Edward Island, where a variety of Frenc...
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Icelandic Word of the Yesterday

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Oct 13, 2009, 5:04 am
[Photo credit] I meant to do this yesterday, on Columbus Day, but it got away from me. The Icelandic Word of the Yesterday is the noun koma (arrival), which is a derived from the not-so-very-different...
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Keith Olbermann Epenthesizes!

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 28, 2009, 10:30 am
[photo credit] Actually it's worse. He's guilty of anaptyxis!!! At the risk of giving away my political leanings, I watch a lot of Keith Olbermann, and I may or may not belong to a Facebook gr...
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Unfortunate Translation

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 27, 2009, 12:51 pm
[Photo credit] If you speak German, you'll get it. If you don't, I'm not going to explain. Suffice it to say that der Schwanz does indeed mean tail, but it also has a second, more idiomati...
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Skrunt reul hangukmal-lo eotteoh-ge maraeyo?

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 26, 2009, 9:46 pm
[Photo credit] If awfulness in a movie were measured in calories, you'd be morbidly obese after a single viewing of Lady in the Water. There's just so much to hate about this movie that it'...
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"The Dybbuk Feeds on Fear"

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 26, 2009, 7:53 pm
[Photo credit] So all day I've been very actively pursuing forms of procrastination. I'd set this day - the entire day - aside to work on my QP2, or second qualifying paper, a bit like a disse...
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Tweet Your Way to Fluency!

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 25, 2009, 12:05 pm
[Photo credit] Yeah, right. If you believe that you can learn a language by using Twitter (alone), you probably also play subliminal Spanish lessons under your pillow. That's not being entirely fa...
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Tips on Learning Verbs

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 11, 2009, 8:23 am
[Photo credit] A lot of people who are learning a new language freak out about the verbs. Part of this has to do with English; we have pretty lame verbal agreement morphology, meaning our "verb ending...
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Online Spanish Dictionaries

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 10, 2009, 8:28 am
Here are a few of the online Spanish dictionaries that I'm familiar with. There are a lot more out there, but not all are particularly useful for students, because they either lack grammatical inf...
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What Am I Going to Do with All of This Zucchini?

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Sep 9, 2009, 1:26 pm
[Photo credit] I was recently out at my parents' place in Hunterdon County, NJ, where my father keeps a rather impressive vegetable garden. This has been a rough summer on vegetable gardens in the...
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The Language Group Option

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 30, 2009, 8:25 am
[Photo credit] This is, hands down, my favorite option for learning (or rather, practicing) a new language. It's social, it's laid back, there's usually wine if you want it, you can nibble...
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Online French Dictionaries

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 20, 2009, 12:33 pm
Here are some good online French dictionaries, with useful grammatical information. ARTFL American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Wordreference.com (Other languages, too....
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The Private Language Tutor Option

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 20, 2009, 6:10 am
[Photo credit] I've used the private tutor option with Icelandic, and, for a very short period of time, Japanese. Icelandic was a great experience. I met with my tutor once a week in my office for...
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Construct States

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 18, 2009, 5:49 pm
[Photo credit] I'm currently working on a paper on the syntax of construct states, specifically in Arabic. Arabic has three types of constructs that I'm looking at. The first is a nominal cons...
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The Study Abroad Option

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 18, 2009, 11:47 am
[Photo credit] If you have a lot of time on your hands, this is probably the best way to really learn a language. That's probably stating the obvious, and it's also an option that's not re...
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LanguageGuide.org

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 16, 2009, 7:52 am
Here's another helpful link for language learners, languageguide.org. It's got free resources, with audio, in several languages. There are vocabulary lists, grammar notes and examples, and rea...
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Dictionaries and Translation Tools

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 13, 2009, 6:05 pm
There are a lot of online dictionaries and translation tools out there on the internet. They're really convenient, you can just bookmark them, you don't need to keep a big clunky book nearby, ...
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Online Newspapers from Around the World

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 13, 2009, 5:21 pm
A great way to practice a new language is to find a newspaper published in that language, bookmark it, and try to tackle a short article once or twice a week. An excellent resource for finding the rig...
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The Classroom Option

Chris Warnasch posted an article on Speaking Easy - Aug 13, 2009, 5:00 pm
Another great way to learn a language is in the classroom. I've taken Dutch and Arabic classes at the New School, and an Icelandic class at the Scandinavia House, both here in New York. I really e...
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About Me

I've spent my entire professional and academic life in language. I've taught English and French; I've lived abroad; and I've studied over a dozen languages in the classroom, with tutors, with self-study material, and online. I've worked as a teacher and trainer at a premier proprietary language school, and I currently edit and write language courses and related content for a major publisher. I studied French and German as an undergrad, and, after just a few years, I am currently working on my PhD in Linguistics (Syntax) at the City University of New York.

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