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Foreign Language Blog Carnival: First Edition: March 2nd 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Cuneiform, pictured above, was the first known written language, used by the babylonians. Image via Wikipedia
Welcome to the March 2, 2009 edition of the Language Bear's foreign language blog carnival.
Foreign Language Blogs:
Spanish Kit presents Why You Should Learn Spanish? posted at Learn Spanish Blog, saying, "Currently, Spanish is the primary language for over 400 million people around the world. Twenty three countries use Spanish as their nation language, and there are over 38 million people in the United States alone who speak Spanish as a primary language."
Erika presents posted at Visiting Spanish Speaking Countries, saying, "Going to Argentina this year? Here's a rundown of some of the more popular festivals."
Bud Brown presents Bud Brown's Excellent Method to Learn Tagalog. posted at Tagalog 101, saying, "Learning languages is not so hard if you have the right attitude, method and resources. I’ve been studying Tagalog for a while with good success. I use a multi-pronged approach...."
That concludes this edition. Thanks for all of your great entries, if you missed being able to submit your article this time keep your eye out and submit your foreign language blog article to the next edition of the foreign language blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Blog Carnival: The Best Foreign Language Blogs - Coming in March!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
We've just had an astounding epiphany here at the Language Bear! As part of our Highlights section, we're having a Blog Carnival!
What's a Blog Carnival, you ask? It's a blog entry that contains links to other blog entries on a particular subject. It's a place where bloggers can collectively present an article that references only the best-of-the-best!
On March 2nd we'll be posting the first edition right here, and it will be full of articles from all over the internet that have to do with learning a foreign language. It will be a great place for you to peruse while you're looking for the best resource material and articles out there, because while the Language Bear has a lot to offer, we don't have everything, and we simply won't. That's what makes the information age so unique. But we'll be offering these links to everyone interested.
And here's the BEST PART! If you have a foreign language blog, or a blog documenting your learning progress, or even a blog entry about how to make French Icecream and Mushroom Strudel Pasta Cake.... (um.. yuck..) you can submit your article to us, and if we accept it, it will be part of the carnival in March!
All articles must be submitted by Feb 27th. So be sure to submit yours now! You can submit an article here.
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Babies who hear foreign speech in their first nine months of life find it easier to pick up languages in school or as adults, research has found.
To quote the article published on May 10th, this year:
Psychologists at Bristol University found that the developing brain undergoes a period of "programming" in infancy which sets up for life its ability to recognise key sounds in whatever will become its native language.
This process helps the brain make sense of speech by filtering out sounds not used in the native language, but also makes it harder to recognise unfamiliar sounds from foreign languages.
Crucially, babies exposed to multiple languages during their first few months retain the ability to recognise sounds from all the languages they hear.
English speakers, for example, usually only recognise one "k" sound, but Irish Gaelic, Russian and Turkish speakers can differentiate between hard and soft "k" sounds, which produce different meanings in those languages.
In short, introducing a very young child to the sounds of foreign languages will give them the ability to recognize them. Since children of this age absorb huge amounts of information from everything they learn, these sounds will be stored in memory and they will be able to recall and recognize and even use them later in life.
At The Language Bear we have been busy adding new books to our collection. Kids books are a great way to get your children interested in a language, have fun getting them to pronounce new words and also learn new words yourself!
These titles and MUCH more, and all at the best prices in town. I hope you enjoy these books as much as we do. Don't forget to tell your friends, students, teachers, brothers, sisters (and so on) about www.theLanguageBear.com
Free flash cards now available in gadgets and widgets
We've just up'd the stakes a bit more and we're now offering our simple language flash cards as Google Gadgets in four languages. You can add these gadgets to your igoogle homepage and thanks to WidgetBox, you can also add them to your blog, your MySpace page, or just about anything else.
We hope you enjoy these little gadgets, and you can rest assured that we are working on some new languages that we can make these flash cards out of too. If you really want a certain language, please, as always, let us know!
Language Bear Flash Cards adds Google Gadgets!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Now we're really cookin' over here. The Language Bear is now on-board with Google gadgets. We've officially released our famous language flash cards in French for use on your iGoogle.com homepage!
Our flash cards are some of the easiest and most powerful flash cards in the industry. There's no login necessary. Anyone can quickly get started studying with these cards. We've built a huge vocab database for each language and created categories to make it easy to study.
The French flash cards give you over 450 flash cards to study from and the ability to choose from 17 different word categories such as: Around Town, Relationships, Food, etc... Display cards first in English or in French and then show the answer. (You can also just show both languages if you're not feeling very ambitious... but c'mon..)
Enjoy the flash cards and make sure you share them with your friends that might be interested too! Just click the "Add to Google" button below!
Cuneiform, pictured above, was the first known written language, used by the babylonians. Image via Wikipedia
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