Spanish Reading Selections: Physical Activity via CDC

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Spanish Reading Selections: Child Safety Seats

… A word about reading texts in their original language: This is freaking hard! Yup. Languages can be complicated! Can’t I just use Google translate on this stuff and read it in English? I guess you could… Then why should I read this? Because reading texts like this can accelerate your language learning. So, what […]

Spanish Reading Selections: Children’s Growth Charts

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Spanish Reading Tasks: The Flu – School and Public

… A word about reading texts in their original language: This is freaking hard! Yup. Languages can be complicated! Can’t I just use Google translate on this stuff and read it in English? I guess you could… Then why should I read this? Because reading texts like this can accelerate your language learning. So, what […]

Spanish Reading Selections: Purchasing School Supplies

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Folium: Cows “Moo” With Different Accents via BBC News

Folium: Cows “Moo” With Different Accents via BBC News This isn’t the first time we’ve discussed the world of animal linguistics, and for reference we illustrated how different languages represent (in writing) the sounds that animals make. However, this is a horse of a different color. Or, um, cow… The BBC, in whom I often […]

Folium: If You Want A Good Job, You Need More Than One Talent via Lifehacker

Folium: If You Want A Good Job, You Need More Than One Talent via Lifehacker My parents would often tell me stories about growing up in Corning, New York. As recently as a generation ago men would graduate high school, go to work for Corning Glass Works, earn a pension, and hope to retire after […]

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Life at School As a future teacher, I was excited to see what schools were like in Costa Rica. Our class size was very small compared to a normal U.S. class. There were only eight of us in the class which made the atmosphere very comfortable. We […]

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Food and Dining

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Food and Dining Food is a large part of our daily lives in the United States and it was at the forefront of my mind going to Costa Rica. I absolutely love food and even told my host mom, Marta, this before I even arrived. I have […]

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life

Aero: Shelby Seeley – Costa Rica 2013 – Family Life Family is a very important part of my life so I was super exited to stay with a host family rather than in a hotel. At the same time I was nervous about coming into the lives of an entire family who I knew very […]