November 2014 - Language Bug

New Language Learning Project: Spanish and French

I’ve been without a mission since completing the last language learning project. This month I’ve been busy with other endeavours. However, sometime during the Mandarin mission, I realised two things: 1. I found learning the Romance languages infinitely easier. 2. I was rubbish at remembering all I’d learned in the languages I already know. I […]

Should You Learn Grammar? Weekly Round Up

We’re back for another edition of the Language bug weekly round up. Seeing as I wrote two articles in the last week on learning grammar, I thought I would do a themed edition of the round up this week and post some interesting links about whether you should learn grammar or not. I’ve tried to […]

Make Learning Grammar Fun

Learning Grammar is not usually fun. Today we’re going to talk about how to Make learning Grammar fun in a couple of steps. This is something I personally use to make learning grammar fun, so it’s not some sort of “5 steps to lose 28lbs of fat by tomorrow” story or anything. It requires two […]

Why You Need To Learn Grammar

A site I visit had a discussion about the best way to learn a language. Like a moth to a flame, I flew in. There were some great suggestions, outside of the usual “A tool is not a method” problem. However, one disturbing thing I noticed was a tendency for a lot of the participants […]

Language Learning Blog Round Up 4

It’s been a while, but we’re making progress behind the scenes at Language bug. There’s a lot of stuff going on that we’re very excited about, but it’s a bit soon to tell. However, what we can say is that in the interim, we’ve been scouring the net for cool language learning blog links so […]

Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Review

As all regular readers of the Mandarin project know, I started by originally intending to learn just the Chinese characters as my writing system. Eventually, I stopped and learned a hybrid of simplified characters and traditional characters. Still, the resource I used to learn those characters was Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters for the Beginner learner. This […]

Pimsleur Mandarin Review

You have already heard of Pimsleur. In my Mandarin overview I told you how I used it. It’s a great resource. There are some drawbacks though. I hope this review will be a conclusive set of views on it. Pimsleur Mandarin: The Good Its great for showing you in practice what the Mandarin IPA is […]

New To Language Bug? Read This!

It’s been a while since I wrote the “About Language Bug” page. In the last few weeks, viewing figures have increased massively. Whilst this is wonderful, I really started to look hard at the site. Now people are actually reading, I figured it was important that the site actually be a bit more presentable. Seeing […]

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Mandarin Chinese Learning Project: Overview

So I’ve come to the end of my intense concentration period on Mandarin. The following is an overview of all the tools I’ve used, my progress to date, what I am going to do next and all sorts of other wonderful insights from yours truly. My Progress with learning Mandarin Chinese I have been learning […]

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English Language Tenses: An Overview

As of Saturday, we at Language Bug finished the English Grammar series on English Language Tenses. It’ll be the last I write on English grammar for a while, but I figured that it’s best to have a summary page for future linking purposes. Without further pause, here is a list of articles on the English […]

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