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My friend Suzanne Mateus writes a blog that deals with challenges and opportunities of bilingual parenting in the United States (and more specifically in Austin). Check out Interpretations of a Bilingual Life!
Hey, Will! Thank you for sharing about my blog! I just found this. I am actually trying to do more on it lately. UN abrazo, amiga! Your blog looks interesting, too.
Learning a new language is hard. If you have money to devote to learning English, I highly recommend you study where I work! UT ESL is awesome! However, sometimes paying for courses is not possible. Austin provides many free or almost-free opportunities to learn English. Here is an incomplete list. The Austin Public Library has a great list of ESL Classes around town. I will replicate it in part below, with my own commentary, but their list is more complete. UT hosts a free ESL course that is taught by master teachers and practicing teacher interns. They provide a free class that the students can practice teaching, and ESL students can get an excellent, challenging free classes, Monday through Friday from 5:00 - 7:00. Space is very limited, so watch the website or get on the e-mail list for information on how to register. Manos de Cristo provides almost-free ($20/semester) classes with morning and evening schedules. They...
In our Oral English class with Alison McGreggor we've been looking at a lot of pronunciation and prosody sites. I want to share some of them: http://www.manythings.org/ has a ton of resources. I like the minimal pair practice for segmental perception. If a Spanish-speaking student needs help with B-V or a Korean student needs help with F-P http://www.manythings.org/pp/ This may not be explicitly a speaking exercise; however, research suggests that perceiving sounds in your target language leads to being able to produce those sounds (Pennington, 2007). http://www.englishlearning.com/ is another cool pronunciation site that a classmate shared with us. http://www.eltgames.com/ESL-jobs-CoUpIn.htm has some great conversation games. I find games to be one of the best ways to practice speaking. http://speak-read-write.com/tonguetwister.html gives you tongue twisters. I love tongue twisters for practicing speaking, because they give focused practice in context, and they are fun ...
If you're like me and study French, you might be interested in connections between our city and nation and the French. Here are a few sites I ran across that might interest you. The first is a party that's this coming week! Bastille Day Celebration on July 16 at the French Legation: http://www.afaustin.org/ Brief history of cities with French names in the US : http://nclrc.org/cultureclub/speakers_corner/Americas-French-Heritage.pdf American students of French writing poetry: http://frenchcinquains.blogspot.com/
Hey, Will! Thank you for sharing about my blog! I just found this. I am actually trying to do more on it lately. UN abrazo, amiga! Your blog looks interesting, too.
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