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Hello From Kim At KLOO

July 1st, 2013|Tags: |

Hi everybody,  this is my first post for the KLOO Language Pie blog. Unless you have been following KLOO on Twitter and Facebook you won’t have met me yet.  My name is Kim and in the middle of April I started managing the social media accounts for KLOO Language Games. I work from home managing the social media side of KLOO and I absolutely love it! I adore language learning and am ever so chatty, so to have a job that involves me talking about language learning is just fantastic. :o) When I was at [...]

The Best Way to Learn a Language – a lesson from Benjamin Franklin!

May 30th, 2013|

Benjamin Franklin said Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin 1767 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How true! Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, gives a telling insight into how we learn. So many of life's skills are best learned by being involved. Think about learning an instrument, driving a car, playing chess, learning to cook......these can only be learned by getting involved. Imagine learning to play the guitar without actually picking one up, or how to drive from [...]

Q: What’s the best way to build French, Spanish and Italian Vocabulary? A: “Word Groupings”

May 21st, 2013|

Q: How many sentences can you make with 60 words. See below for the shocking answer! When words that work together are correctly grouped then the number of sentences a learner can make with them grows exponentially....this means that the learners ability to express him or herself grows super fast. Really, really super fast - read on. In KLOO we have grouped decks of cards into 4 main themes: "People", Food & Drink", "Place" and "Everyday Objects". In each deck there are 60 cards.  For instance, in the "People" deck there are nouns like "doctor", "policeman", "sister" [...]

Smart Learning: The 5 Pillars of Language Learning

May 11th, 2013|Tags: |

There are important principles to learning a language. These principles are proven and will jet propel the rate at which you pick up a language. Conversely, if you don't use them, language learning becomes a hard slog to Moscow in Winter.

Make the last 10 minutes of a language lesson go with a bang

May 7th, 2013|Tags: , , |

Teachers keep them wanting more with KLOO! Turn language into a game and keep students wanting more Language is not the easiest of subjects. Some young people find it very difficult. I know I did when I was studying for my O'Levels. But recently I was recalling how my old Latin teacher, Mr MacDonald, used to always allow a bit of fun at the end of class after maybe 45 minutes of hard grammar and translation work. He would create quizzes and allow us to write our own sentences on the blackboard for other students to [...]

Why learning a second language is like a giant Sudoku Puzzle

April 24th, 2013|

Why language is like a puzzle to be solved Learning a language is like a giant Sudoku If you have read my blog before you'll know that I am a games designer - who also loves to learn languages. I enjoy games and the challenges they pose. I can get quite lost in crosswords, Sudoku and chess - sometimes for hours. I think my love of games is why I also like learning languages. In many ways learning a language is like a giant Sudoku puzzle in the sense that there are three [...]

The F Word in Language Learning – FUN

April 12th, 2013|Tags: |

The FUN way to learn a language Learning a language abroad becomes is a necessity The most powerful way to learn a language is through necessity. Drop yourself into a foreign country and you'll soon find out how to exchange simple pleasantries, order food, give directions and learn the basics of daily living. Because you have to. The mind becomes extremely efficient and determined when it becomes a matter of eating - or not! The fun way is also the best way However, when language learning is not a necessity, like for most of us, it becomes a [...]

The Surprising Best Way to Learn a Language

March 21st, 2013|

Yes speaking with other humans is the best way to learn how to speak with other human beings. No technology beats it. Ever. Does the other human need to be fluent or a teacher? No. Just someone willing to learn too. With the right tools, two (or more humans) will learn a language very fast.

Learning French like a Parrot can seriously slow you down

March 11th, 2013|

if you learn a language using the wrong products and methods, you are likely to suffer from “Systematic Forgetting” – a scary thought which roughly means “in one ear and out the other”. There are strong scientific reasons for this phenomenon.

Brighten Up Spanish Lessons with Language Fun

March 2nd, 2013|

How to spice up language lessons with MFL Games Sprinkle a little fun into lessons for language learning to grow Even now, after being immersed in language for some time, I look at how language is communicated and wonder at how difficult it all seems. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, agreement, tenses, person, form, gender, negatives, subjunctive, conditional....Oh my! When we started learning languages as an infant it was fun, even a favourite lesson. We sang songs, played games and were never troubled by a gerund. But then, at about the age of eight, Spanish lessons [...]

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