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Back-to-school favorites from Living Language |
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I had always wanted to learn Polish, since it's the language of my grandparents, but never had the opportunity. So in college, I studied Russian, as it was the language closest to Polish. While I was a senior in college, I took a polka band tour of Poland with my elderly aunt and uncle. I was one of five people under 65 years of age (two others being the polka band guy and his drummer).
Do you have a language story that you'd like to share? Submit your experiences to us at livinglanguage@randomhouse.com. We'll pick our favorites and post them in this newsletter. 
Finding language resources in your own neighborhood
You may think that opportunities to practice your foreign language of choice are limited to spending hundreds of dollars, or more, on a plane ticket, or maybe renting an obscure foreign film at your local film rental place. However, depending on where you live, there could be plenty of free, or at least very inexpensive, practice opportunities in your own neighborhood. For example, there could be a cultural organization or informal social group where people meet. You might be surprised how many other people in your town also want to practice their foreign language skills, and meet regularly to do so (there could even be food involved!).
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I recently got an interesting e-mail inquiry from a customer who's learning Japanese with our Ultimate Japanese course, as well as Spanish, with our Ultimate Spanish course. He's now set his sights on Hindi, and wanted some information on our Hindi course. I loved this question for two reasons. First, because I love people who choose Living Language over and over again! But also because this guy is my kind of guy - a linguaphile who just wants to keep on learning languages.
Also on the blog this month: 
The secret language of Japanese emoticons … It seems that not a day goes by lately when you don't receive some sort of communication - be it e-mail or text - where someone tries to convey their pleasure or displeasure with an emoticon. You know, :) for the good, :( for the bad. You could say this is somewhat of an international language. While I have yet to figure out a way to say "what would you like me to pick up from the grocery store on the way home?" with an emoticon, it seems there's one for everything else I might need to say. :O is shock. ;) is me being coy. (ToT) is me crying. Wait, what? |
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