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Portuguese Culture Through Language
Portuguese Culture Through Language
Self-teaching is a circular, pebbly path
Islander
Sep 18
Why It’s So Hard to Learn a Language
Why It’s So Hard to Learn a Language
Why we’re teaching language the wrong way
Trevor Whitaker
Sep 17
Do You Know the Story Behind Portugal’s Second Official Language?
Do You Know the Story Behind Portugal’s Second Official Language?
Anticipating the Dia de la Lhéngua Mirandesa celebrations (Mirandese Language Day)
Rui Alves
Sep 16
Don’t Use Ordinal Numbers When Writing Dates
Don’t Use Ordinal Numbers When Writing Dates
Another quirky grammar rule that drives us crazy
Jacquelyn Lynn
Sep 10
Is Financial Literacy a Thing in an Ever-More Complex World?
Is Financial Literacy a Thing in an Ever-More Complex World?
How we’re introducing literacy to our classrooms this school year
Rui Alves
Sep 8
What Does “Welcome in” Mean?
What Does “Welcome in” Mean?
If we greet with “welcome in” should we also say “goodbye out”?
Jacquelyn Lynn
Sep 6
The Rise of Fast Language
The Rise of Fast Language
How LLMs will tell our stories
T.H. Leigh
Sep 5
The Myth of Comprehensible Input
The Myth of Comprehensible Input
CI — Is all the hype deserved?
Steven
Sep 3
My Students are using AI to Master their Language Skills
My Students are using AI to Master their Language Skills
Will language teaching jobs become obsolete?
Penny Dame
Sep 1
It’s All Greek (or French or Latin) To Me
It’s All Greek (or French or Latin) To Me
Untranslated quotes are a pain in the derriere…
Dan Hiland
Aug 30
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