Friday, 14 January 2011

Learn a Foreign Language by Experiencing it Abroad

Do you want to learn a new foreign language?
Would you like to study it abroad?

It has been proved that cultural immersion is the fastest and most effective way to learn a new foreign language. To study a language in her corresponding Mother tongue country is the only way to learn speaking it fluently, while having the opportunity to learn deeply about different cultures and creating interesting connections with different people who have similar viewpoints and interests.
In addition, the learning of a language may appear difficult when trying by yourself in a classroom or at home, but it can be a fun, memorable and exciting experience if lived abroad. 
But, sometimes to find the right and useful information is not so easy: it could be a hard work to find the school able to suit your personal needs, cause there are several language institutes displaced all over Europe. 

Learn Languages Abroad is a full website selecting and gathering complete information on how and where to study the language and culture you have choosen to get in touch with.
You can choose to study, Italian in Italy, French in France, German in Austria, Spanish in Spain or Russian in Russia, by just having a look at the schools we have carefully selected for you.
We provide high quality institutes (certified by national and world wide organizations such as ASILS, SOUFFLE, AEEA and CAMPUS AUSTRIA) that directly give American University credits while helping you find an accomodation during your permanence abroad. We offer you top standards of language tuition combined with attractive leisure programmes and a wide choice of accomodation . We provide schools from several cities in Europe and Russia while giving the possibility to look among different programs, which include also intensive language programs and summer programs to any level (from beginner to advanced) and for students of any age.
We provide information about language courses in France, Spain, Italy, Austria and Russia. All featured schools organize courses all around year about different topics: from cultural to professional courses.
Each school has several solutions for accomodation and for your free time! 

Study a language in the country where it is spoken is the best and fastest way to really learn and understand it, and Europe is a small cultural niche where people have the possibility to interact with a large variety of cultures and traditions, sometimes really different one another. It is an exciting, interesting and different way to increase oneself knowledge and experience.

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Browse our pages today, choose a destination and ask us a brochure for free.

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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Working With Translation Companies

Translation company 
It is not necessary that you have to work with freelance translators. This is because a couple of translation companies are coming up to help in translating legal documents, company handbooks, marketing materials and scientific reports among others.
To this end, keep in mind that there are a number of benefits that come about as a result of working with companies, which offer the services under discussion. For starters, you will discover that these firms will offer you services of a better quality as compared to some freelance translators.
They will also be more likely to charge you lower rates since there are more than enough players when you consider the industry that deals in translating documents between languages. The competition has led to reduced rates that you will be sure to gain from.
Similarly, you will get translation quotes in an instance when you work with companies as opposed to working with freelancers. This is because they can offer such quotes automatically via telephone or through the internet.
These firms also have a higher likelihood of completing your projects on time. This will come about as a result of such companies having the manpower to engage teams of people on projects that are proving to be hectic. People will work at different steps and the ultimate result will be that less time will be spent on any one project. This will help to reduce the amount of time you have to wait for your translation to be complete.
Finally, you can hope for and gain from customer support when you work with such firms. They will keep good track of your project's progress. In the same way, any changes you need to be included into the project will be looked to. You will get to work with personnel in the customer support department to streamline your translation so that it comes out perfectly.
Translation service provide language translation in over 130 languages. No matter whether you need technical, medical, business or general translation, we are well versed in providing accurate and high quality translation services.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

How to use Flash Cards to Improve your Vocabulary

flash cards
What is a flash card ?
A flash card is a little piece of paper, the size of a business card, which has on one side a new word in a language you're learning, and on the other side a word in your mother tongue. 
How do I make a flash card ?
Take little cards or better, make them out of thin paper (so that that you can pile up more, durability is of no importance here). Always have a blank stack with your language method, dictionnary, radio, or whatever tool  you use to learn your language. Whenever a new  interesting word  appears, write it down on a blank flash card, find out its meaning and write it on the other side. At the end of the gathering session, you make a little decks with your flashcards, and put them in a little plastic pocket.
Alternatively, you can use my free flash card software if you have Access.
Where can I get ready-to-use flash cards ?
If you need to build a general vocabulary, buying a stack of printed flash cards is an attractive alternative. They are stronger, clearer and save you a lots of time. The best general publisher of flash cards I know is Visual Education. Their typical package contains 100 flash cards with one word and its derivative on each, for at total of over 3'000 words. I used the russian stack with great success, and friends told me great things about the italian one. A good buy for 10$.
How is it used ?
Whenever you have time (see below) you take a deck  and begin with one side for (example,   french to english) and try to discover the word on the other side. If you guessed correctly, you move the flash card to another deck, if not you put it at the end of the original deck.
Then  drill you skills in the other direction (english to french) in the second deck. The words you successfully guessed go to a third deck. After a week you can take this third deck  and go again from french to english, and so on until you know each word perfectly, or just decide you know it and then put the terminated flash card in a cup over your fireplace.
When is it used ?
The best part of this method is that you don't need to allow any special time to learn your flash cards. Just have your decks on you at all times during the day, and whenever a small moment appears, take your decks out and drill a few cards. Such hidden moments include :
  • Waiting for an elevator and inside it
  • Waiting in line at some desk, museum or cinema
  • Commuting in public transports
  • Waiting on the phone
  • Waiting at the restaurant
Why is this method superior ?
  • It's free, versatile and easy to use
  • You don't need any specific time to drill your new vocabulary, all the time it takes is already here, hidden in your day
  • It's far better than word lists, because you can break it up in any minute and then group the words by their difficulty, they don't stay in the order you wrote them down
  • The moment you find a new word you'd like to learn, all it takes is to write it down once, and that's it ! You're ready to drill it until you know it, and you cannot "forget" about it. It will always come back on your deck until you learn it to get rid of it!

source:  how-to-learn-any-language