language learning experience

On being a beginner language learner again

09/10/2015 Susan Dawson One comment

I have now attended three classes in Koine (New Testament) Greek in the space of 8 days. In that time I have had to come to grips with a completely new alphabet (learn the names of the letters, how to write them and pronounce them, diphthongs, breathings, punctuation, subscripts …), learn how to conjugate two different verb types, decline one type of noun […]

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New Book: Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience

22/04/2015 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

This is a new publication that forms part of the series on Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning. It is edited by Arnd Witte and Theo Harden and looks at the subjective dimension. Below is the synopsis: Learning a foreign language in its cultural context has a significant effect on the subjective mind, ranging from the unsettling to the inspirational. The […]

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