Do you know your smartphone can be a precious aid to learn a language?
Due to a technical issue, the new video will be replaced by a PDF file. Download the text in the language you prefer! 😉
🇬🇧 An introduction to your smartphone as a language learning tool
🇪🇸 Una introducción a tu smartphone como herramienta para el aprendizaje de idiomas
🇮🇹 Un’introduzione al tuo smartphone come strumento per l’apprendimento delle lingue
Videos will be back on October 30, 2019.
The new ‘Exploring Language(s)’ video is an interview with professor Augusto Soares da Silva (UCP – Braga ) on the status of Portuguese as an international language. We recorded the interview in Portuguese; then I manually added the subtitles in the three ‘official languages’ of the channel. Watch it with the subtitles in your favorite language! 😉
🇬🇧 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRaK8NM1e5g
🇪🇸 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=org4reB65jI
🇮🇹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF5EaTimK-8
As usual, the links to the video will be stored in the video repository.
Spanish vs. Italian – part I: Pronunciation and orthography
The new ‘Exploring Language(s)’ video is now online. It is the first part of a comparison between Spanish and Italian, two Romance languages whose differences are too often undervalued. In this first episode, I will deal with issues regarding pronunciation and orthography. Watch it in the language you prefer! 😉
🇬🇧 English
The links to all YouTube videos are listed in reverse chronological order here.
Why it is time to accept that the English language today is a diversity policentric entity, and no variety is inherently superior to (or more real than) any other.
The new video is out now! Watch it in the language you prefer! 😉
🇬🇧 The myth of ‘real English’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UcB-IDEQT4
🇪🇸 El mito del ‘verdadero inglés’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3DZjHDlfig
🇮🇹 Il mito del ‘vero inglese’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIs_IGqT-0c
The links to all YouTube videos are listed in reverse chronological order here.
Enrico Torre 