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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 […]
Continue readingIt’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 […]
Continue readingAs 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 […]
Continue readingWe’re back at Language Bug. Now we’ve mostly dealt with the knot that was the English Grammar series, we’re back to regular programming. We’re going to do another round up. This time it’s Language Bug Weekly Round Up #3. You’ll have to forgive the license on “weekly.” We’re here again now though. Language Bug Weekly […]
Continue readingThis is nearly the last of the tenses in the English Grammar series. We still have conditionals to go and then a summary post to tie it all in together. After that, we’ll be back to other language learning articles. What Is The Future Perfect Continuous Tense? What Do We Use The Future Perfect Continuous Tense For? […]
Continue readingWe have almost finished all of the tenses that you will find in English. We have a couple more future tense explanations, and then the conditionals. You can use these articles to learn English grammar if you are a non-English speaker, or you can use these to learn other languages by looking up in a […]
Continue readingYesterday, we learned about the future simple tense. (See the bottom of this article for a link!) Today, we’re going to learn about a related tense, but with a special construction. This is the Going To tense construction. Going to Tense: What Is The Going To Tense? It has the same general use as the […]
Continue readingIn English, we may need to construct a sentence where we talk about something that is going to happen in the future. To do that, the easiest way is to use the future simple tense. The Future Simple Tense: How to Build Sentences with the Future Simple Tense John will walk to the shops. Subject […]
Continue readingLast week, we introduced a new series for Language Bug. This is the hotly anticipated second installment in the Language Bug weekly roundup. Within the round up, we will detail a handful (two this week – I’ve been travelling!) of links which we’ve read this past month. The aim is to help language learners from […]
Continue readingThe last few articles have been rather nuts-and-bolts, so it’s time to take a step back and think about the philosophy of learning a language somewhat. The subject for today is on preparation versus action. Are you learning a language? It seems a simple question at the outset. You’ll probably all say, “yes.” I would […]
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