Drew sent this: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2091477,00.html

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I got these excellent observations from Naomi: Dear Ben, On the ACTFL listserv someone listed this today as an interesting article on the “little words” – pronouns, articles, etc. – which, it ends up, are first of all ignored by the brain in establishing meaning, and very revealing of the personality of the speaker …

I got this from Julie. I don’t really have an answer. Here it is: Hi Ben, I’m looking for some advice, probably from the whole group, (as subscribers we don’t post new topics, right?) so I’m hoping you could put this out there to everyone. [ed. note: if you want something to appear here as

On the topic of training kids about exactly what behaviors you expect in your classroom (i.e. your classroom rules/norms), I did something that was a first for me today. I didn’t just explain the rules, I modeled what I wanted from them. I am working this year in a school with kids whose family’s are

We have more video, the two clips below are from Angela, who says: Hey Ben! In looking at Drew’s video, I was inspired to send in my submission. This is my first year with TPRS and I really want as much feedback as possible. In the following clips which I believe are from the fourth or

To be clear, I did take some footage of my workshop today and will put some of that up here but it has to cook in iMovie for a few days – more like a week – and then be put into those little YouTube pieces.That takes time. I am really thinking that Brian has the

In a recent comment here Robert wrote: …while I find the changes to the AP test for German and French very positive, we still need to remember that AP is intended for a level of language acquisition that most of our students cannot reach in four years. (According to the State of California, students who

I have a colleague who has two middle school classes, one of 8 and one of 4 kids. I told him to just be careful with those small classes. They can get boring because of the lack of diverse energy in the room. Here is what I wrote in an email to him: You will

For some time now, we have experienced the power in asking a class “where” a student likes to do a card activity, as per Angela’s comment yesterday on how her class started with “Alex likes clarinets” and, through Circling/PQA, ended up with Alex playing the clarinet at Bikini Bottom. But then Angela found out a bit later that Alex

Ben: I was recently reminded of the Twext online resource for creating interlinear texts of songs, etc., something which you have used in the past.  It looks like the Twext website is currently down. Do you (or anyone on the blog) know of any similar resources out there for easily creating interlinear texts in the

Ben, Here is the survey I handed out to the kids. Spanish I, First Days Get-to-Know La Clase This is some of the contextualized, interesting Spanish that we are doing “on the side” the first few days of class.  We are spending about 10-15 minutes a day getting to know one another.  The objective is