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  • Monthly Archives: October 2012

    A Two/Seven minute quiz for *non*-German speakers (and a much overdue update)

    First, the update: The book is chugging along, and will take substantially longer than I had predicted (and will be much better for it!).  So far, I’ve gotten my thoughts, theories and research down on Memory, Pronunciation, Word Learning, Grammar, Vocabulary lists and Mnemonic Use, and the next step (aside from some remaining research and thoughts on Reading/Writing/Listening/Speaking) is reworking it into a friendly, clear presentation that’s an enjoyable book to read (and not a textbook).  As we start cutting textbooky sections out of the book, I’ll be posting them here.

    My current goal, aside from finishing the book, is to provide some high quality pronunciation tools here, because there’s just not very much available that’s easy to use and effective.  

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