The Language Dude

A Place for All Cunning Linguists, Who Have a Gift for Tongues.

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Should Immigrants to the US Learn English?

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The answer is yes! This topic came up earlier today due to the new administration's push for reforming the United States Immigration P...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Oxford Vs. DK Which Visual Dictionary is Better?

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So which one is better? Before I answer, let me just state for the record that of all visual dictionaries, these are the most common and...
Monday, July 18, 2016

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Repost of a comment I made on this site: http://www.lingholic.com/how-to-get-speaking-practice-in-a-foreign-language/ I struggled with ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

5 Language Visual Dictionary by DK

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The five languages included in this dictionary are English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. It would have been nice to round it off wi...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Harry Potter and Blu-ray Goodness

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I remember when Blu-ray first came out. Being a language nerd the thing that thrilled me most was the fact that you were allegedly supposed ...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Confucius Say:

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If you are in a bookstore and cannot find the book for which you search, you are obviously in the...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Rosetta Stone

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I could write on and on about Rosetta Stone, but I will make it short. You've seen the commercials and more likely than not seen their k...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Did Somebody Say Language Book Collection?

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These are photos of most of my language books and Rosetta Stone software that I have collected over the past 20 years. And yes, I wrote ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Scandinavian Languages: Dansk, Norsk og/och Svenska

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Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes will probably all be pissed at me for lumping these languages in together, as they tend to concentrate on the ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Prepare For a Speaking Test... Even When You Don't Have To

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Cat got your tongue or your brain? So, there I was in a job interview a couple of days ago. The job itself is not important, but the lesson ...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Spanish - Español

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Spanish. I can read it much better than speak it. This is a poor excuse considering all the opportunities there are to practice in the USA. ...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Flemish/Dutch - Erik Hartman Boemerang

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Watching foreign language YouTube videos is a great way to learn. You can see and hear what the clip is about, plus read comments about a cl...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dutch - Nederlands

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Believe it or not Dutch is the language that most resembles English. Funny thing is, most English speakers have no clue about this. Dutch al...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Great Product: Focus on Contemporary Arabic by Shukri Abed

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Ya... Arabic speaking dudes and dudettes, for those of you who have a good commmand of Arabic but feel like you just never get enough pra...
Monday, February 23, 2009

French - Le Français

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Yes, my friends, despite our differences with the French, their language is here to stay as the premiere foreign language to learn. Hell, ev...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Arabic اللغة العربية

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If you ever thought learning Klingon would be cool, but then suddenly realized only dorks want to learn Klingon, Arabic may be for you. I st...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Dschinghis khan - Moskau: The Youtube Sensation in German with English Translation

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So, above is the video of probably one of the most WTF videos I have seen that is so bad it's good. I provided the German to English tra...
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Learning German, Deutsch Lernen!!!

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Ja!!! The cool thing about German is that no matter what you say, you sound pissed off. Now, this isn't always the case, but, well... ok...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Speaking English As a Native Language, Pros and Cons

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If you are reading this, congratulations! You speak (read) one of the most widely spoken languages in the history of the world. It is the li...

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I have worked for over 20 years as a linguist and CT analyst for various government agencies. Other than study languages, I love politics. Especially when it comes to political subversion carried out by the Former Soviet Union and by some in our own MSM.
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