Did anyone see the programme on Channel 4 yesterday where a young man learnt enough Arabic in 19 weeks to be interviewed on Jordanian TV in Arabic?  It made interesting viewing for those of us who are language tutors. 
First of all he is to be congratulated for his success.  He took on not only speaking the language but reading and writing it as well. 
The thing that impressed me most was the fact that he tried out his Arabic all the time - with his tutors in England, with his host family in ...
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Looking for new ways to read books, I investigated again the Overdrive app which on smartphones makes it easier to borrow ebooks from public libraries as opposed to buying ebooks from Amazon, downloading public domain materials or articles or even putting together your own stuff.
In the course of this activity, I came across, borrowed and downloaded, an ebook entitled “The Meaning of Tingo” by Adam Jacot De Boinod, published in 2005 by Penguin. Its subtitle goes some way towards describing...
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