by afrar | Jul 18, 2024 | Tunisian Stories
Once there was a sultan who had never had any children. Because of this, his life was becoming unbearable and he was always worrying about who his successor would be. He was so consumed by it every moment of the day that he lost interest in food and sleep until...
by afrar | Jul 18, 2024 | Tunisian Stories
Once there was a sultan, who had a son. He, like all sons of sultans, was schooled in the palace. The sultan brought him a Quranic teacher who taught him the Qur’an. He brought professors who taught him science, literature, poetry, history and geography. He learned...
by afrar | Jul 18, 2024 | Tunisian Stories
Once upon a time, there was a merchant who was wedded to his cousin, a girl of splendid beauty and above all of great manners. They loved each other like soulmates. This merchant always wore white and was known as the White Merchant.One year, business was a little...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Tunisian Stories
Every culture and every society has its stories. The Grimm brothers, Charles Perrault, Božena Němcová and others have collected and written down the fairy tales and stories of their countries. These often somehow have some things in common and also differ in...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog
Everyone knows that you need to pronounce difficult sounds when learning a language – at least most of the time. If I am learning English as a German speaker, there are sounds that I don’t know and need to learn. For example, in German there is no dental...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Perspective of the Student
We’ve seen that GPA has big advantages. Again and again I read about new insights of language learning experts for language school teaching that are fully or nearly identical with GPA thoughts (see here:...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Rosetta Stone
In part 1 we talked about the benefits of the Rosetta Stone; let’s go now to the drawbacks: First of all, Rosetta Stone does not provide you with the opportunity to speak in any meaningful way. While it correctly focuses on listening comprehension as the base for any...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Assessments
After the activities are over, it will be good for you to sit down with the learner and discuss with him or her how the current language learning process is going. What is he struggling with? What is she enjoying? What are they doing in their language lessons, if...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Assessments
In the last four posts, I’ve talked about why (and why not) to assess your language proficiencies, and what skills to assess. This time, we’ll look at the all-important question of how to actually do the assessment. To begin, start by using the three (or five, if...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog
He was a very nice guy, but the worst teacher I’ve ever had. He had a lot to say, but was totally incapable of teaching us. His major motivation was to teach us his religion and not his language. But that’s not why we were in his classroom. Even worse, he got angry...