The 5-Week Linguist Show: Seasons 1, 2 and 3

Summer professional development for language teachers. Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. I wanted to dedicate this episode to my language teacher, colleagues. And I wanted to tell you how very much I admire you. I’m astounded by teachers. I think teachers are amazing. And obviously I’m biased. I’m one of you, but I wanted… Read More Summer professional development for la...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, we are in the fifth week of five weeks of pleasurable language learning week, and we’re going to talk all about things we don’t love. (0:35) Checklist of the things you don’t love. (01:13) Love for the language (01:38) Combining your chores with languages (02:05) Learning a new… Read More Tips for Learning a Language: Things we Don’t Love The...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, we are in the fourth week of five weeks of pleasurable language learning week, and we are going to talk more about binge-watching. (0:44) – Access from different contents (0:52) – Janina’s previous way of learning a new language before online content exists. (01:20) – Binge-watching is a… Read More Netflix and Binge watching for Language Learning T...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, we are in the third week of five weeks of pleasurable language learning week, and we will talk more about reading. [01:07] Krashen Research on Pleasure Reading [01:14] Two hyperpolyglots [01:28] The Linguist website [02:30] Tim Ferriss [02:49] Four-hour workweek [03:17] Mini-retirement [03:59] An exchange student in Japan… Read More How to Make Lea...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, we are in the second week of five weeks of pleasurable language learning week. Join Janina for insights, tools, and guidance on making meaningful language learning happen anywhere, anytime. In this episode, we will talk about binge-watching. [01:11] Stephen Krashen, Ph. D. [01:26] Website of “The Linguist” by Steve… Read More Fun Langua...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, we are in the first week of five weeks of pleasurable language learning week, and we’ll talk about research in learning new languages and effective techniques. [01:01] Dr. Stephen Krashen. [01:13] He has dedicated his life to assisting people in learning languages and has shared much of his… Read More Language Learning Techniques The post Language...

Welcome to the Five-Week Linguist Show. We will talk about some low and no prep activities that you can add to your language teaching repertoire. (02:00) About Janina’s Life (05:12) Flyswatter Activity (07:51) Subtitle Activity (09:45) Drama Activity (12:12) Screenplay Activity (13:19) Input Activity (17:43) Review Activity (22:07) “Things I love” Activity (26:05) Deep reading… Read More Fiv...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. We will talk about five activities to practice meeting and greeting in other languages. (0:02) – Five activities from improvisation to practice meeting and greeting. (0:46) – All About Alliteration (01:01) – Whatever your name is, you’d have to introduce yourself with an adjective of the same letter. (01:57)… Read More Activities t...

Welcome to The Five-Week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about Assessment. [00:22] Record yourself [00:57] Free App Recording software like Vocaroo. [01:34] Using Notebooks – Communication Journal [01:54] Write about something you’re going to find. [03:27] Growing Proficiency [04:06] Where do you want to be? [06:10] The Foreign Service Institute. [08:20] The Association… Read More...

Welcome to The Five-Week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about the fun of teaching languages. [00:27] Have fun, it’s critical [00:45] Experience a target language while you’re doing things that you love. [02:07] Have fun during the entire process [02:46] Languages are a huge part of the human experience. [03:03] You were not… Read More Learning a Language is Fun! The post Lea...

Fun Class Activity: Learn Language with Vision Boards Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Are you looking for a fun activity that you can do for that first dreary day back from winter break? In this episode, Janina will talk about Vision Boards. (0:35) – Introduction to vision boards (0:53) – How it works (1:20)… Read More Learn Language with Vision Boards The post Learn Languag...

Welcome to Five-Week Linguist Show. We will talk about how using Hotel Complaints can help you practice learning a new language. (0:22) – a fun activity for people learning to make complaints politely in a foreign language. (0:37) It practices lower–level language like greetings, time, and numbers. Creating Scenario in Hotel Setting (00:56) You can… Read More Fun Speaking Activity: Hot...

  Welcome to Five-week Linguist show. We are going to talk about different ways producing language to express yourself. (0:39) The importance of producing language (01:10) You can’t express yourself if you can’t produce language. ) (1:33) Producing languages, whether it’s on your own, or in a class setting, or communicating with people, is a… Read More Producing Language Th...

Welcome to The 5-Week Linguist Show. In this episode, we will talk about 5 card games. [00:04] Card games are a fantastic way to get people learning, reading, and speaking new languages. [00:32] The First Game is called How Do you say….? [01:30] To make it like a bit of a game, you can put… Read More Language Card Games The post Language Card Games appeared first on Real Life Language...

Activities to learn verbs Welcome to The Five-Week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about the importance of verbs in language learning. [00:29] Mastering Verbs [00:39] Expressing Actions [01:09] First Activity: The Hot Potato [02:58] Second Activity: Check [04:08] Third Activity: Asking and Answering [05:43] Fourth Activity: The Koosh Ball 25 Ways to learn… Read More Activities to learn v...

Welcome to The Five-Week Linguist Show. We will talk about five rules from traditional school conditioning that need to stop. [01:14] Don’t talk during class [02:12] Don’t make mistakes [03:11] Stop playing [03:35] Attention and focus [04:00] Take yourself very seriously [04:26] Learning languages Looking for some convenient ways to get language into your...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, Janina will talk about Google Apps post-COVID in the world language classroom.  (2:37) – I’m going to discuss how to use Google Docs, Slides, Forms, YouTube in your language classroom, how to plan and organize a guest speaker session in your target language for your students, and some… Read More Tools for the Language Classroom The...

Welcome to the 5-Week Linguist Show. In this episode, we will talk about writing sub plans as a language teacher and what independent learners can do when a teacher is not available. (00:42) – If you’re lucky, get a teacher who speaks the language. (01:04) – It’s challenging to write sub plans as a language… Read More Writing Sub Plans (+ tips for independent learners) The post Writing Sub P...

Teaching Propositions in a Foreign Language Welcome to The 5-Week Linguist Show. Today, we will talk about different fun activities to teach prepositions in a foreign language. (0:05) – Learning the difference between a native speaker and someone who’s learned French or Spanish as a second language by their prepositions (0:51) – Prepositions of location… Read More Teaching...

Welcome to The 5-Week Linguist Show. We are going to talk about a fun way to correct errors. [01:10] Help students keep working on fluency to communicate effectively [01:28] Accept errors as part of the process [01:34] Teach students to take risks [02:31] Assignments: Journal entry, letter, essay [03:17] You can put this down in… Read More Correcting Errors: A Fun Activity The post Correctin...

Welcome to the Five-week Linguist Show. We’ll talk about how to use Google Apps to learn and teach languages. And this week, we’ll talk about Forms. (0:33) – Google Forms (0:59) – Comprehensible Input for Reading (1:37) – Quizzes and Forms (3:15) – Surveys for Intermediate Level (4:17) – How would this be useful for… Read More 5 Weeks of Google Apps:...

Welcome to the Five-week Linguist Show. We will discuss using Google Meet for Studying Languages. (0:27) – Google Meet (1:03) – Contribution that Google Meet made during the pandemic (1:35) – Google Meet Dialogues Activity (3:24) – The next activity is Quizlet (4:31) – Independent Learner (5:07) – There’s an abundant amount of resources to… Read More...

Welcome to the Five-week Linguist Show. We’ll talk about how to use Google Apps to learn and teach languages. And this week, we’ll talk about Google Slides. (0:57) – Google Slides (1:24) – Slides and their many templates (2:24) – They can do all sorts of fun games! (3:43) – Simple presentation (4:32) – Fun… Read More 5 Weeks of Google Apps: Slides Th...

Welcome to the Five-week Linguist Show. We will discuss using Google Apps for learning and teaching languages. And this week, we’re going to talk about YouTube. (0:40) – YouTube’s History (1:26) – YouTube Recording for Fluency (2:20) – What if you are an absolute beginner? (3:02) – About YouTube Channel for Learning (4:10) – Challenge… Read More 5 We...

Welcome to the Five-week Linguist Show. We will discuss Google Apps for Languages. (0:49) – Google Translate is a great tool (1:23) – The Voice Feature (2:10) – I love Google Docs (2:38) – Five ways that any language learner can use this tool (3:26) – Vocab Journal and Task Journal (4:46) – Fluency Journals… Read More 5 Weeks of Google Apps The post 5 Week...