Comments on: ESL Materials: The Bilingual Secret Weapon /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: taktown /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/#comment-1000054214 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:04:21 +0000 /?p=22281#comment-1000054214 ESL Materials: The Bilingual Secret Weapon – t.co/1p9GgfU13A t.co/1p9GgfU13A

]]> By: Rou /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/#comment-322204 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:25:59 +0000 /?p=22281#comment-322204 Textbooks are dangerous, man, I got two paper-cuts from mine today!

Seriously though, everyone in my class is bored out of their minds during English. The teacher’s solution? MOAR EXCERCISES. We got 18 A4 pages of fill-the-gap exercises today. I wish I was kidding. Then again, our teacher explicitly stated that he is not trying to teach us actual, real-life English, he is focusing on preparing us for our exams.

/rant over

This is an interesting suggestion, though. I can still remember the feeling of “I wish I could speak English already”. It would be interesting to take a look at how they learn this language in countries other than mine. And learn some Japanese in the process!

]]> By: grant /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/#comment-321261 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:58:53 +0000 /?p=22281#comment-321261 Signed up for several ESL weekly email things. This may only be motivational for me because I’m an asshole, but seeing these lists with hundreds of thousands of subscribers getting the most basic english things terribly wrong makes me feel better about making mistakes in japanese.

]]> By: Tyson Key /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/#comment-320940 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:50:25 +0000 /?p=22281#comment-320940 Heh, I had a look at some IELTS books for Japanese speakers at university, a few days ago; and some of the “break questions” seemed to have been designed to drive anyone reading them up the wall. (If I remember correctly, you had to read a wall of text consisting mostly of “cat”, with the occasional “bat”, or some other word thrown in, and either read it aloud, or write it out by hand).

I’m sure that some of the example sentences were also pretty dull/stupid, by most standards.

]]> By: FN /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/#comment-320265 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:15:29 +0000 /?p=22281#comment-320265 Don’t forget podcasts- I like the BBC Learning English podcasts aimed at Chinese learners of English. The older version of the podcasts (was called ‘Ask About Britain’; don’t think they’re the same anymore) have clips of English people answering questions, with lots of natural Chinese translations and explanations.

Books in China are really cheap and I have lots of learning English ones- the English is terrible and I feel sorry for the people learning from them, but the Chinese is great for me!

]]> By: ninjaq /esl-materials-the-bilingual-secret-weapon/#comment-320045 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:04:14 +0000 /?p=22281#comment-320045 Thanks for that Asahi-press link, hadn’t come across that before.
Do these examples of 熟語や連語 look legit? I’m STILL working on the kanji.

www.tsukue-no-mae.net/h-words/etc/rengozyukugo1-a.htm

www.tsukue-no-mae.net/h-words/etc/rengozyukugo2-a.htm

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