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Chuchotements d’éveil: A writing workshop like no other
Posted: May 27, 2019
Writing can be therapeutic and liberating! In her post, Nathalie Rondeau tells us how she came up with the idea for an online creative writing workshop while she was confined to a hospital bed.
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Troublesome verb pairs
Posted: May 21, 2019
Do you confuse “bring” and “take”? “Borrow” and “lend”? You’re not the only one! Read this week’s post to untangle the meaning of troublesome verbs.
A historical overview of the “grammar-translation” method for teaching foreign languages
Posted: May 13, 2019
Where does the foreign language teaching method used in most textbooks and in self-directed learning come from? Our guest blogger, multilingual professor Alejandro Hernández Jaramillo, writes about a method whose origins reach far back into history.
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Let’s take a butcher’s at cockney rhyming slang
Posted: May 6, 2019
Have you ever heard of cockney rhyming slang? Line Lalande fills you in on the basics of this amusing “secret code!”
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