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A chairde! Conas atá sibh? Today we arrive at the last blog post *queue uncontrollable sobbing*. We have come so far and it’s been so good, but… Read more “So far, so good”

Dia dhaoibh a chairde!  Can playing games help us learn? And if so can they help us acquire a second language? This is the topic I’ll be… Read more “What’s the name of the game?”

Lads! Cén chaoi a bhfuil sibh? SO, I’ve been monitoring my social media usage this past week using an app called Rescue Time and boy has it been… Read more “Generation Y (am I like this?)”

Hola mis amigos! Today I want to talk a lil bit about Corpus Linguistics. According to my lecturer (shout out to Sylvia) this idea of corpus was introduced… Read more “The Purpose of Corpus”

Leute! Cén chaoi a bhfuil sibh? Today I’ll be talking about.. you guessed it.. ICC! (you can never have too much intercultural communicative competence). This week we’re… Read more “Good for the Soliya”

Hallo meine Lieblinge! It’s been a little tamall  since I spoke to you last but hopefully you remember what we talked about in the last blog. Carrying… Read more “The ICCing on the cake.”

A chairde! This week we learned about a professor’s Michael Byram’s model of Intercultural Communications (1997). Now I know this theory is older than most of us but I think this… Read more “The 5 “Saviours” of Intercultural Communication”

Dia daoibh meine Geliebten! Today I want to talk about social media, the good, the bad and the downright ugly. Now I know the whole “pros and cons… Read more “FaceHooked?”

Dia dhaoibh! Are these sorts of assessments accurate, or just a bit of fun? That’s the dilemma I’ve been grappling with over the past week. To be… Read more “Language learning style: Should we take any notice?”

How’s it hanging folks? When we were asked to review a language learning app this week, a montage of every single Duo Lingo, Linguee type app I… Read more “A CALL of Duty: Teanglann”