I’m rubbish at learning languages. So for a language method to work, it has to be truly idiot-proof. Here are the best two ways I’ve found of learning a new language – one obvious and therefore my idea, and the other so cunning I’d never have thought of it. (Thanks, Ian). Both of them will [...]
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Why I’d Make A Great English Teacher
(Fevered Mutterings v2.0: September 2006) ….. Sir, I’ve finished the story you set for me. That’s the single most stupid thing I’ve heard this week, and this week has been a veritable Ardennes of stupidity. You haven’t “finished” it. You’ve merely stopped working on it. It will never be finished, and that is the sickening [...]
Cunning Linguistics
March 20th 2006 I’m back on the French lessons again, speedily (the 2nd April isn’t far). [Note from modern Mike: I've no idea what was happening on the 2nd April. Sorry]. Both these and the Greek course I was previously doing are from this company. The approach is ‘repetition until you’re a frothing, gibbering moron’ [...]
