fluency for free!
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Welcome to Fluency for Free
Melanie Leggatt, Modern & Medieval LanguagesIan Mackey, Information Services
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Melanie LeggattModern and Medieval Languages
Ian MackeyInformation Services
FLUENCY FOR FREE
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What you can achieve with a computer, a network connection and your inspiration
Based on a graduate training session entitled
The Web, my browser and me
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Historically, an assumption that success was guaranteed if you threw cash at an expensive language-learning package
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Or indeed locked students in a language lab with grammar aids http://www.flickr.com/photos/fake_eyes/342753239/
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The truth lies elsewhere
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In your own enthusiasm and ability
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You can avoid the financial cost – it's time and effort that count
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Lots of useful resources online, but no shortcuts
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Indeed the true skill likes in navigating through the piles of detritusto find the hidden gems
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A bit of a gallop so lots of supporting links available online after the sessionif you sign the attendance sheet and leave your email
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Quite the opposite – that you're bubbling over with ideasabout what you'd like to do
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You just need the tools to make it happen
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Introducing you to these tools, where to find them and the possibilities is the focus of this session
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The good news is that today we are spoilt for choice because of Web 2.0 and beyond!
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Before we go any further, an aside about Web 2.0 – just what is it?
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Initially with Web 1.0 we all tooled up and went shopping, then something changed. . .We stopped being merely consumers and started creating instead. Web
2.0 meant write access for all!
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Lots of people posted their own resources and made them freely available for sharing
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The good news for us is that this included language geeks!
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So, we have whole world of digital creativity to explore
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So which pieces of the jigsaw will you need?
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GatewaysHuman-reviewed listings of the best sites around
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GatewaysExamples
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Sites like Bab.la and Wordreference provide excellent online dictionaries
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Sites like Memrise and Busuu provide excellent online vocabulary resources
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Sites like Lang-8 allow you to connect with native speakers who willHelp you with your written language – of course you need to help them too
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Tunein has a comprehensive listing of international radio stations playing online
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SOUNDS
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Forvo 2,102,797 words 2,173,421 pronunciations 306 languages
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SOUNDS
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On demand audio recordings from native speakers
Of course you have to help out others too. Try Rhinospike
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SOUNDS
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ICDL provides free access to childrens' books with their limited vocabulary
Excellent for beginners!
The written word
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Online newspaper and media listings provide useful links for more
advanced learners!
The written word
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Online newspaper and media listings provide useful links for more
advanced learners!
The written word
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Generate your own flashcards to help extend your vocabulary and grammar
with Anki
TOOLS
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Italki: Skyping to improve your language skills
TOOLS
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DuoLingo offers totally free high-quality online courses
TOOLS
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Internet Polyglot also offers totally free high-quality online courses
TOOLS
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Join active online forums like the one at Fluentin3months
TOOLS
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Benny Lewis' account of how he went from mature monoglot to polyglot
INSPIRATION
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Follow the most productive blogs
INSPIRATION
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Follow the most productive blogs
INSPIRATION
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START YOUROWNBLOG!
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SERIOUSLY!
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If you can drive a web browser you can do it! http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephens-pictures/2962923660/
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So how do we find the stuff to get started?
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Thankfully for us, publishing is now as easy as falling off the proverbial log
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And if you can use a web browser and drive a word processor it's easy to do it with style too
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1,000s of people blog on Wordpress so it can't be that difficult,can it?
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You don't have to publish for everyone to see until you're ready
It can be somewhere for you to organise all your favouritelinks, record your thoughts and your progress
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Treat it like your personal language learning diary
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But if you do decide to share your experiences you becomepart of the online language learning community too
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And remember you can do it anonymously!
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And you can enjoy knowing you've reciprocally shared back
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Which neatly takes us back to systems like Diigo to help us manage all this information
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Scoop.it – curating and displaying your favourite contentcreated by you and others
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Explore the links on the page we'll supply you with
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Questions
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Onward to the practical!