Category: Tips &Tricks

Language learners (and teachers!) have a love/hate relationship with translation apps like Google Translate. You either love ’em or think, as the founder of Babbel does, You get the information, yes, but every language has its own way of describing the world. If you learn a new language, you usually also learn a new way…

Check out lyricstraining.com for a fun way to practice the sounds, words, and rhythm (grammar) of other languages.  This site presents music videos with lyrics captioned beneath. But, wait! Some words are missing. Did you hear them? Can you remember what you heard? Here’s how it works: The song will start, with captions underneath. Soon…

Audio clips are a great way to help you hear the rhythm or music of a language. You will start to identify which words or parts of words are stressed or emphasized. You will hear the reader’s voice rise and fall. You will hear how one word slides into the next. In longer pieces, you…