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About Us

Welcome to Lingualearn

Lingualearn is a large language consultancy offering a comprehensive range of high quality language products and services, e.g. translations & language courses. We cater for anyone with a need for international communications. Our website is an on-line resource centre for advice, information, language services, products to buy and useful links.

Tips for learning a new language

Language Learners

Different people learn in different ways. There is no best way to learn a language, just different ways that suit different people. We know from research by Rubin (1975) that the Good Language Learner is a willing and accurate guesser who has a strong drive to communicate is often not inhibited is prepared to attend to form a practises and monitors his own speech and the speech of others, and attends to meaning.

Personal Tutors

Lingualearn is able to offer the services of personal tutors for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. The tutors are all native speakers and experienced teachers of the target languages. Most tutors are able to offer tuition at the client's home, some prefer to work at their own home, and others will give lessons via the telephone, email and internet. We select our tutors very carefully.

Lingualearn Professionals

Consultants from the Lingualearn network are able to offer a very fast and flexible language testing service. We can test at almost any time and anywhere. The tests use well-designed criterion-referenced rating scales. These tests are suitable for screening applicants for positions that require language skills. Our telephone and email tests take about 45 minutes and cost around £50 `{`approx' $80 US`}`.

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In-Company Language Courses

Lingualearn is able to offer in-company courses for: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch and Swedish.  We have a very large network of language trainers on our books at present, all qualified and experienced native-speaker trainers.

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Distance Language Courses

Lingualearn specialises in distance language courses.  These are ideal for people on the go, busy managers, people who like personal tuition, employees who have to travel abroad regularly and those who find it difficult to attend classes at fixed times.

Business Culture Training

Lingualearn’s business culture training is ideal for executives on the move and international business travellers who wish to find one easy way of preparing themselves for a foreign culture.  As all the information and advice is given by distance means, it is a very flexible service.

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For senior appointments, we suggest a longer and more reliable test taking about two hours, with multiple raters to obtain a relatively high inter-rater reliability coefficient. Each test is followed by a detailed report on the language skills of the testee, and an estimate of their general language proficiency.  Quotations are available on request, but the cost of such tests is in the region of £100 [approx’ $160 US, EUR 140, $220 CAN] per test.

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Language Learning

Motivation is one of the keys to successful language learning.   Maintaining a high level of motivation during a period of language learning is one of the best ways to make the whole process more successful.  As each individual is motivated in different ways, we have to find the right balance of incentives to succeed (or “carrots”)  and disincentives to fail (or “sticks”), encouragement, and the right environment in which to learn.

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From Our Blog

Tips For Practising Your New Language Every Day

Any teacher will tell you that the key is repetition when it comes to learning a new language. To become reasonably fluent in any language, not only do you need to know a lot of words, you also need to know how to put these words together correctly to make cohesive sentences. Many languages also have word endings that can change quite a lot depending on a sentence’s meaning and other words used.

If you’re after some useful tips to help you practise your new language, you’ve come to the right place. Keep on reading to find out some simple and effective ways to practise and become more fluent.

The News

One of the best ways to practise your new language is by consuming news content. Choose a place where the language is spoken and go online to find the latest news updates. Boost your reading skills by going through articles, and improve your listening skills by listening to news programmes (without subtitles if you’re proficient enough).

Whether written or spoken, news items are a great resource for practising your skills in a language, plus they’re a source of new vocabulary. All languages are constantly changing and new words and phrases are being added all the time. News items and any other type of recently produced content give you the best impression of what the language is like at the present time.

TV Shows and Movies

Lots of TV shows and movies on streaming devices are available in multiple languages. If the language you’re learning is quite a popular one, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to stream some TV shows and movies in it. If you’re up for a challenge, watch something you haven’t seen before. If you want an easier practising session, watch something you’ve already seen before. Since you’ll already know what’s going to be said, you should find it easier to understand what’s being spoken on screen.

Your Hobbies

You can even fold language learning into the hobbies you already have. If you enjoy a flutter online, for example, most casino sites can be switched into other languages, and the customer support teams behind them are often multilingual too. Reading a comparison of the UK's best casino sites and the support languages they offer is a quick way to find one where you can try out your new skills: every British site offers support in English, but a good handful also answer in other languages. Switch the site to the language you are learning, read the game rules and bonus terms in it, and ask the live chat a question or two. The vocabulary is everyday and practical, and because you already know how the games work, you can concentrate on the words rather than the content.

What is The Best Age for Kids to Learn a Second Language?

Everyone should learn a second language fluidly. It’s something you’ve probably heard as a kid during some point in education.

Evidence suggests that it gets significantly more difficult to learn and retain a new language as you age. You know this all to well if you have tried picking up a different language when you’re older.

Parents have been grappling with if and when it makes sense to start teaching their children a new language.

You Have Longer Than You Think

A Harvard study suggested that children gain the natural ability to learn during the first 3 years of their life. Meaning that the earlier you start introducing new languages, the more likely a child will naturally pick up and retain the subject.

According to further research, 50% of our ability to learn is developed in the first 4 years of like, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to learn quickly later in life. A new study suggests that we can continue to learn at a quick rate of 17 or 18. That being said, while children can learn quickly past the age of 10, it is unlikely that they would become fluent in a language if they begin learning later in life.

The Consensus

Parenting is hard enough, so if you’re fretting about whether or not you need to enroll your child in the next “Toddler French Master Class”, just take a breath.

Contrary to popular belief, you have more time to teach your child a second language than you think. Although, it definitely can’t hurt to start sooner rather than later. Those young tender years can set a child up to be fluently bilingual. But, if your child is older than 3 or 4, you still have plenty of time.

You can wait for your child to show an interest in a specific language, you can throw on a few educational TV shows, or even partake in a few flashcard sessions, but you don’t have to worry if you kid isn’t bilingual before they are potty trained.

Tips for Learning a Foreign Language

Have you ever been jealous of a friend or a colleague who can speak a foreign language without any trouble? Well, I’m pretty sure all of us would have been in that situation, and if you are motivated to learn a new language, we have listed down some of the tips to learn a foreign language. Learning a new language is not easy, you need to be dedicated and passionate about your goal. But at the same time, it is not impossible to learn another language. With a little patience and dedication, you can learn anything you want.

Find out what motivates you to learn the new language:

All of us have dreams, and most of us try to achieve it, but some of us due to the lack of motivation do not work hard enough to make our dreams come true. One of the key things to achieve your dream is to be passionate about it. There is a great difference between working towards something and being enthusiastic about something.  When you are passionate about your goal, you will be disciplined, and nothing can stop you. Learning a new language might be hard, but if you have something which drives you to learn it, you will have no trouble at all.

Think in the language you want to learn:

Most of us tend to think in our mother tongue. If you are trying to learn a new language, try to think in the language you want to learn. When you do that, you will be able to form sentences, and when you actually try to speak in that language, you will be able to talk without stammering.

 

 

 

Living in a place where the foreign is spoken is an added advantage:

If you happen to stay at a location where the local language is the language you want to learn, you have a great advantage. Since everyone will be speaking in that language, you will have no other option other than to speak in that foreign lingo. Wherever you go or do, you will be forced to read and speak in that language, and thus you will be able to learn better.

Embrace your mistakes:

We all are not superhuman, and we are meant to make mistakes. When you make a mistake, do not feel discouraged. Try to embrace your mistakes and learn from it. Making errors while learning is part of the whole process and so, when you make a mistake the next time, use it as a tool to improve rather than sulking about it.

 

 

Find various opportunities to speak in the language you are learning:

To be fluent in a particular language you need to learn to speak well in that specific language. Try to find opportunities to speak in the language you are learning so that you will be able to grasp the accent and the practice of speaking in that language.