Global Citizenship
Module 8
Multilingualism
18 Courses
Introduction to Linguistics Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Birmingham Started: 11/07/2018 Finished: 18/07/2018 Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Southampton Started: 17/11/2014 Finished: 15/11/2014 Cultural Studies and Modern Languages Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Bristol Started: 19/07/2016 Finished: 22/07/2016 Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Glasgow Started: 23/07/2016 Finished: 29/07/2016 Multilingual Practices: Tackling Challenges and Creating Opportunities Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Groningen Started: 10/05/2017 Finished: 17/05/2017 The Art of Teaching Foreign Language to Young Learners Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Started: 18/07/2018 Finished: 19/07/2018 Italian for Beginners 1: Meeting, Greeting and Eating Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 15/03/2018 Finished: 15/05/2018 Italian for Beginners 2: My Friends and Family Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 15/05/2018 Finished: 18/05/2018 Italian for Beginners 3: My Daily Life Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 01/06/2018 Finished: 08/06/2018 Italian for Beginners 4: Likes and Dislikes Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 10/06/2018 Finished: 15/06/2018 Italian for Beginners 5: Time to Travel Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 15/06/2018 Finished: 23/06/2018 Italian for Beginners 6: Out and About Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 22/06/2018 Finished: 27/06/2018 Spanish for Beginners 1: Meeting and Greeting Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 09/03/2018 Finished: 04/07/2018 Spanish for Beginners 2: People and Places Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 04/07/2018 Finished: 19/07/2018 Spanish for Beginners 3: My Life Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 19/07/2018 Finished: 08/08/2018 Spanish for Beginners 4: Leisure Time Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 08/08/2018 Finished: 30/08/2018 Spanish for Beginners 5: Getting Things Done Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 30/08/2018 Finished: 13/09/2018 Spanish for Beginners 6: Out and About Platform: FutureLearn Institution: The Open University Started: 13/09/2018 Finished: 23/09/2018
1 Book
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It Author: Gabriel Wyner Publisher: Harmony Published: 2014 Started: 21/06/2017 Finished:
1 App
Duolingo: Learn Languages Free
“Learning a new language is a lot like entering a new relationship. Some will become fast friends. Others will hook their arms with calculus formulas and final-exam-worthy historical dates, and march right out of your memory on the last day of school. And then sometimes, whether by mere chance or as a consequence of a lifelong odyssey, some languages will lead you to the brink of love.
Those are the languages that will consume you – all of you – as you do everything to make them yours. You dissect syntax structures. You recite conjugations. You fill notebooks with rivers of new letters. You run your pen over their curves and cusps again and again, like you would trace your fingers over a lover’s face. The words bloom on paper. The phonemes interlace into melodies. The sentences taste fragrant, even as they tumble awkwardly from your mouth like bricks built of foreign symbols. You memorise prose and lyrics and newspaper headlines, just to have them at your lips after the sun dips and when it dawns again.“
Marianna Pogosyan, Why learning a new language is like an illicit love affair, Aeon.co
Learning a new language is a very impressive feat that expands your mind, improves your inter-cultural communication and is something I very much want to achieve.
I want to be very clear, while I did dabble with Spanish, Italian and French, I did not learn a new language as part of this module.
The learning of this module was focused on studying different language acquisition methods, because I wanted to lay the foundation for when I do learn a second language.
Coupled together with the high volume of learning that forms this overall MTA Portfolio learning a new language was too demanding, but further down the line once the building of this portfolio is behind me, I am very serious about committing myself to learning a new language.
Ultimately, I like the challenge learning a new language poses, speaking more than one language may well prove to be very useful and I don’t want to be just another British person who could not be bothered to learn another language.