Caterina Skiniotou's Profile

Put simply, Web 2.0 is the participatory web. The previous generation of the web (Web 1.0) was chiefly an enormous bank of resources which was rich in content, but did not solicit active participation. In Web 2.0, participants have the capacity to comment, modify, collaborate, upload, remix, aggregate, post messages, form groups and so on. In other words, Web 2.0 fosters an active involvement in online activities which makes it ideally suited for language learning.

No gongoozling. This is my favorite word that I learned from a friend who grew up on Washington's Long Beach Peninsula, which is home to many a gongoozler.

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Each language uses a unique set of sounds. Scientists now know babies are born with the ability to distinguish all of them, but that ability starts weakening even before they start talking, by the first birthday.

Mastering your dominant language gets in the way of learning a second, less familiar one, Kuhl's research suggests. The brain tunes out sounds that don't fit.