Myth 1: You need to have a talent for languages When I was at school, I believed I didn’t have an ear for foreign languages and that I was simply lacking aptitude for it. I remember my friend Frauke, who…
It has been a long way for me to become an English teacher. Well, to whom it may concern… I have to admit that I was not very enthusiastic about English at school. Not at all to be fair. At…
In her popular TED Talk „No child left monolingual“, Kim Potovski, a professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Illinois, aims to destroy a range of common US-American myths and misconceptions about bilingualism and multilingualism. She presents a series…