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From monthly archives: November 2021

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What’s the time? Understanding How Time Influences the Way we Learn Languages

Two renowned linguists found that “…people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.” In this article I use some examples to illustrate the concept of time versus language.

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An English learning Taboo: Tenses

No teacher or student is surprised when tenses become a point of frustration in the learning process. Notorious for being difficult to apply, tenses are dreaded my most ESL learners. The most complicated part is that there are a lot of rules and when we look at all of them in totality, the task of remembering all of them seems impossible.

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