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Small Personal Victories in Language Acquisition

Inspiration pt3 by Stephen Poff Tae Kim recently had a great blog post titled Memorable Moments in Language Acquisition. It’s a great idea, both examining the various emotional victories that are part of the language acquisition process, and also... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Sat, Aug 01 2009

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