Distance learning programs were available long before Internet was born. I remember a friend of mine, taking marketing courses by correspondence: she got the materials by snail mail, she did her homeworks, sent them to that university, and finally got a diploma. It was not the diploma, but the acquired knowledge, which led her to [...]
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How to Learn Foreign Languages by Association
June 28, 2007 – 12:51 pm
Did you ever experience the frustration of visiting a foreign country and not understanding the language at all? Luckily, English is pretty much international these days. However, when I visited China I had the surprise that many people did not speak anything but Chinese, so my knowledge of three languages was rather useless, as long [...]
Practice 115 foreign languages online with native speakers
March 21, 2007 – 3:24 pm
If you ever tried to learn a foreign language, then you know how difficult it is to remember things when you don’t have the chance to practice. It is the normal way our brain functions: connections that are not used get loose and disappear, while connections used a lot tend to get stronger. But how [...]
