Posts Tagged ‘languages’

5 Keys To Mastering A Foreign Language

These tips from former Canadian diplomat Steve Kaufmann are good motivation for anyone struggling with learning a foreign language.

The one tip I would share is that you really aren’t too young to begin learning. It may be easier to learn a language in your youth, but you are definitely more than able later in life.

Listen wherever you are on your MP3 player. Read what you are listening to. Listen… » Continue

September 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Communication, languages | 11 comments»

Using Yahoo Pipes To Translate RSS Feeds

It’s a simple idea but something that could beef up the content in your feed reader. This simple tutorial from Webware about taking an RSS feed from a website in another language to your own and using Yahoo Pipes to translate it into another feed.

BabelFish wouldn’t do it. (It gave me an entertaining error message, though: “Insane value.”) I was initially encouraged when I used Google Translate, which did… » Continue

June 22 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: feed, languages, rss | 1 comment»

How to Learn a Foreign Language

A goal for many people, learning a foreign language isn’t easy and it only gets harder the older you get, they say.

Our good friends at MindTools have another great How To, this time helping out the FL Learners out there. If you’re starting out, or an intermediate in a language, these are some great tips to help the old memory.
1. Using Mnemonics to link words - English: grumpy - French… » Continue

February 15 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: languages, memory | 1 comment»

Learn Programming Languages

Say you want to get in on this Web 2.0 goodness, or maybe you need a programming language to improve your career abilities. Anthony Aaby has a book online that covers the theory of programming languages. It looks to be a good “behind the process” understanding of how languages work.

Programming languages can be understood in terms of a relatively small number of concepts. In particular, a programming language is… » Continue

May 23 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: ebook, howto, languages, programming, software, theory | 2 comments»