07.25.11

It Changes Everything

If you feel the need to learn a foreign language, how do you decide which one is the best? I would think its eventual usefulness would be quite a big factor in determining your choice, but then again personal preference and circumstance could also play a big part. If you happened to move to a foreign country, learning the local language would be a necessity if you did not know it beforehand. Speaking the lingua franca changes your whole experience of a place and opens doors which might otherwise remain firmly shut. A friend of mine had to work in Singapore for an extended period of research. She did not stay with all the other foreigners as she had learnt to speak Chinese. Her whole stay was enriched in a way that would never have happened if she had only spoken English. I fancy learning Spanish and after a bit of research have set my mind on Pimsleur Spanish to get me there.

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05.9.11

Write Easily in Academia

When you think about writing your college and university papers you should think www.uniproof.co.uk as a solution. The website will help you to correct errors and ensure that your written papers say what you want them to do when you submit them.

Time and again, students submit work that hasn’t been reviewed or checked by another person, which is a crucial stage in the whole writing process as it allows for errors, mistakes and omissions to be noticed (and indeed corrected) before papers are then reviewed and graded. This means that all of the work and effort that is put into working on these essays and reports won’t be wasted because the student say these errors before they were submitted. Also, with the difficulties in securing employment at the moment, there is a need to understand that gaining the highest possible grades on your academic course is an important aspect of your time spent in academia.

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10.23.10

Learning Bulgarian – My Experience

For over two years I want to learn Bulgarian, but it is quite a difficult language to understand if you have a non-slavic background. Even the alphabet is quite different from the latin alphabet which is used for the english language.

With “Learn Bulgarian Easily” I found a program that gives me a good start for learning bulgarian. It is an online portal, where you can get more than 8 videos to begin with a basic vocabulary. They cover several everyday topics, like Greetings, Months, Travel or Relationship vocabulary. I found that very useful to get a picture through a whole range of areas.

I can recommend the site to start your journey into the Bulgarian language. You don’t have to pay anything and they even provide information about the country and culture on the weblog. You can find them also on youtube with the username: learnbulgarian.

If you have further resources to learn the Bulgarian language, feel free to leave a comment on that blog.

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09.2.10

Why German?

The German Language is closely related to and associated with the English and Dutch language. Many are interested to enroll in a German course because this is the widely spoken native language in the European Union. It is one of world’s major languages. German is spoken by nearly 105 million native speakers, while about 80 million by non-native speakers all round the world. Of the 23 official languages in the European Union, German is the second-most spoken language. It is found to be just behind English, but ahead of French, and with the largest population of native speakers in Europe. In order to learn to speak a foreign language like German, you should have the interest and passion to learn it. Every session that you are to spend learning the language should not be seen as a chore but rather as a hobby. You should enjoy what you are doing and love it at the same time. If you would have this kind of mindset in learning the language, being able to speak, read and understand it would be a breeze. In no time, you would find yourself having German language skills at par with the native speakers of the language. Internet made it possible to learn a new language like German conveniently. Language lessons could now be downloaded online and you could now learn at your own time and pace.

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