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Rocket Chinese Premium is a new audio language course from the awesome folks over at Rocket Languages. The creator & voice of this course is called Lin Ping, and the host & presenter is David Lewis.

I feel it's worthwhile to establish some context for language students to the world of language teaching. A modern history of language teaching will give you an informed perspective on your own particular learning process, what your teacher is doing, and what makes for effective language teaching.

The following, therefore, is a very brief history of language teaching that emphasizes the period starting from the innovative, theoretical developments of the nineteenth century Reform Movement up to the present.

A sufficient perspective on this period of 100+ years would not exclude the background out of which the Reform Movement arose however; therefore, a cursory review of the pre-theoretical ‘Dark Ages’ of language instruction will introduce this history...

When asked to name the most difficult languages to learn, most people would rank Japanese pretty high on that list. On the surface it seems to be an intimidating language, what with its strange kanji characters, quick mode of speech, and varying levels of “politeness.” What a lot of people don’t realize is that basic Japanese is actually relatively easy, and for at least three reasons...

David Fisher has considerable experience with learning languages. The lessons garnered from his repeated failures in the past to learn them effectively, combined with a fierce determination to succeed, eventually enabled him to master several languages and to create How To Learn Any Language. The following is my review of this eBook...

Tell Me More Italianis part of the Tell Me More line of language software products from Auralog. This line is known for being more expensive than most language learning software packages, but also for bearing a rich and impressive set of features that receive high marks for both performance and reliability. Most notable is the speech recognition technology that allows you to work on your Italian pronunciation.