Category Archives: Foreign Languages

Learn Chinese with images

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

All about Chinese is unique. It is so special that I found myself scrolling through the pages, looking at the pictures and the words as if it had taken me back to my own college days. It has its innocence, simplicity, … finish reading Learn Chinese with images

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French Grammar Central

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

French Grammar Central is developed by Robert D. Peckham from University of Tennessee Martin. It is one of the most complete grammar study guides I have ever encountered.

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Russian Language Mentor

Posted on November 12, 2012 by

The Russian Language Mentor [http://russianmentor.net/] has a great collection of recourses. It contains 14 recourse categories, they are 1) Developing Language Proficiency Reading; 2) Developing Language Proficiency Listening; 3) Developing Russian Cultural Literacy (in English); 4) Cultural Literacy Interactive… Continue reading →

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Multitasking

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

When I worked at different institution, I sometimes hear people say that we should not keep students from multitasking, because that's how students nowadays learn. Our young generation of students grew up in the world that is surrounded by… Continue reading →

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Knowmia

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

  Knowmia.com has a collection of over 8,000 videos. It is designed mostly for high school teaching and learning, but I do find the Chinese language collection to be beneficial to our students. The reason I recommend the Chinese… Continue reading →

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Webcast in Russian: NOVOSTI NEDELI

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

Webcast in Russian: VOVOSTI NEDELI is a project of the National Capital Langauge Recourse Center. The NCLRC offers webcasts in three languages: Arabic, Chinese and Russian, among which the Russian webcasts appear to be the most developed ones with… Continue reading →

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杨澜：The Generation that's remaking China

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

  Microblogs came into China in 2009 and this social platform has grown tremendously in the past several years. With most Microblog users being young people (under 30), this generation (born in the 80’s and 90’s) has shown great influence… Continue reading →

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Duolingo

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

  I learned about Duolingo (duolingo.com) at the CALICO conference in May 2012. James Paul Gee, the keynote speaker, mentioned Duolingo briefly in his keynote speech. In summer, one of our French students mentioned that he had enjoyed studying… Continue reading →

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Spanish Proficiency Exercises

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

“Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks.” This project is developed by University of Texas at Austin, URL: … Continue reading →

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Ai Chinese

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

Aichinese.com is a resource that Chinese instructors and students should not miss out.  This is a great resource for listening and speaking exercise, and it also provides great content learning information. With a free account, you will be surprised… Continue reading →

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