This just in from ABC News, The Smoking Gun and others: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), a branch of the Dept. of Justice, is looking for 9 linguists who are fluent in Ebonics to “…monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations…” According to documents excerpted in The Smoking [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Justice Department: Linguists Wanted
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ebonics, Justice Dept., languages, Linguist on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Learn How to Learn From a Master
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged foreign language, foreign language learning, Kato Lomb, Polyglot, teaching yourself foreign languages on August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“I like to say that we should study languages, because languages are the only thing worth knowing even poorly.”– Kató Lomb If you’re really serious about foreign language acquisition, you owe it to yourself to read Polyglot: How I learn languages, by Kató Lomb. Lomb (February 8, 1909 – June 9, 2003) a native of [...]
Is Travel Necessary?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged foreign language learning, Polyglot, teaching yourself foreign languages, travel on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Can one really arrive at fluency without visiting the country whose language one is learning? I never thought so, until the day I met my first polyglot. Bob was quite a few years older than me and spoke 25 languages. In the short time that I knew him he succeeded in dispelling every myth I [...]
Hello All!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This will be another venue for me to talk about foreign language acquisition. It will complement my YouTube Channel in that some topics brought up there will be addressed here in more detail, but check both–you won’t want to miss anything. Subscribe Today! Only 14 more days to submit your piece for the Polyglot Project [...]
