Great turnout for both workshops in our Linguist’s Toolkit for Language Learners series this month: Affix & FX! — Approaches to ”Irregularity“ and Linguistic Variation in Spanish — Exploring Spanishes Around the Globe.
Affix & FX! — Approaches to ”Irregularity“
The goal of this workshop was to provide language learners with the tools to deal with “irregularity.” Phenomena in language that people call “irregular” are in fact perfectly regular, they are just governed by special, exceptional rules. In this workshop we looked at special processes in English, Korean, Spanish, French, and German.
Linguistic Variation in Spanish — Exploring Spanishes Around the Globe
At LanGo, we find linguistic variation endlessly fascinating because it showcases the diversity within languages and offers rich linguistic, social, cultural, historical, and personal insights for language learners. In this workshop, we went on a global exploration of linguistic features (pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar) that vary across Spanishes spoken all over the world.
We hope everyone learned a lot! Join us for the next set of workshops in our Linguist’s Toolkit for Language Learners series 🔜, during our upcoming Fall II session.
Hot off the press: our Spain guides! 🔥 With pulchritudinous cover art by @trinitypoints. Many months of teamwork went into this beauty and we hope they’ll be an excellent resource for our upcoming language & culture immersion trip.
Spain LanGoers will get their copies on-site next week! 🌍🚀
Our Mandarin maven, Caleb, annotating phrase boundaries. 😍 Nouny bits are in blue and verby bits are in red. Who can translate his work?
#linguistics #mandarin #中文 #languagelearning
That’s a wrap on Summer Spanish Camp with our Lil’ Langaroos! 💙🧡
Scenes from our “Compound Interest for the Language Learner” workshop this weekend! 😍
Compound words are what we call words that are made up of smaller meaningful parts which are themselves also words (and not merely prefixes or suffixes): “cellphone” is made up of “cell” added to “phone”. We find such words endlessly fascinating because they illustrate the odd linguistic arithmetic of 1+1=1. In this workshop, we first went on a fun word-watching tour through some of the LanGo team’s favorite compound words and then analyzed different types of compound words in German, Korean, Spanish & Roviana.
Accruing some compound interest too? Join us for the next linguistics for language learning workshop in our upcoming fall session!
K-food and karaoke celebration! 🥘🍻🎤
¡Buenos días! 🌺 Setting up for our Lil’ LanGoroos Spanish camp this morning.
Tell us about your weekend plans in your target language!
The Mighty Morpheme Word Arrangers! Our team & students had so much fun discussing word-building & solving morphology puzzles at our linguistics for language learning workshop today.
Don’t miss our next workshop on syntax for the language learner! Link in bio to register.
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Join us for our next session of language classes! 💃🏻🕺🏻 Our Spring II session will run from March 18 - May 19th, 2024. Link in bio to register.
We are very excited to announce our 2024 fall language and culture immersion trip to Spain! 🇪🇸 This program will offer Spanish language and culture enthusiasts the ultimate opportunity to learn and practice Spanish and to be immersed in the culture of Spain.
The program itinerary will include time in the vibrant capital city of Spain, Madrid, and in the cosmopolitan capital of Catalonia, Barcelona. We will also visit several other important cities and cultural centers of Spain; optional day trip destinations include the historic cities of Toledo or Segovia, and the beautiful eastern coastal city of Valencia. Our goal is to provide participants with a program filled with unique, hands-on experiences so that they can increase fluency through cultural immersion, social interaction, experiential learning, and engagement with several communities in Spain.
Participants will be able to try authentic cuisine, observe traditional customs, learn about the history, culture, and language variety of each place we visit, and interact in Spanish with our instructor team and with locals.
The 2024 Spain Language & Culture Program will be held for a period of seven days from October 7th – 13th, 2024. Registration opens TODAY and closes on May 31st, 2024 or until the participant cap is reached.
For more information and to register:
▪️ Contact us: learn@langoinstitute.com
▪️ Visit: www.langoinstitute.com/lango-abroad-spain
▪️ Register: https://form.jotform.com/langoinstitute/spain
¡Nos vemos en España! 🚀🌍
We celebrated the year of the Wood Dragon with noodles, multilingual fortunes, and LanGo friends! 🐉💫🧧 May your year be filled with confidence and courage! ✨
Chinese character writing practice during Tyler’s office hour this week. Check out these beautiful characters! ✍️😍👏
Have a question about something, need help with your weekly assignment, or just want some extra language practice? Come see us during our weekly office hours! Reach out to your instructor to make an appointment. We are here to support you!
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can you relate ?! #languagelearning #languagelover #langoinstitute
What an incredible year F I V E for LanGo! Swipe to see all the language learning goodness that happened in 2023. ✨
And meet our cute new mascot who goes by many names: LanGoyangi / Neko Yangi / GaTito / Kitt / Agatha / Lexical Cat(egory)! 😺
Happy Holidays from the LanGo team! ✨✨✨
Last night’s holiday party! 🧡💙 Congrats to all our LanGoers leveling up & making amazing language learning progress this year. 👏🫶
Last stop on our immersion trip to 한국! Some dreamy scenes from 제주도 ✨ We saw many natural wonders and summited the highest peak in South Korea, 한라산! #langoabroad #languageimmersion #southkoreatravel #jejuisland
More from our immersion trip to 한국! Some colorful scenes from 부산 ✨ We saw many sites and enjoyed all the fresh seafood markets! #langoabroad #languageimmersion #southkoreatravel #busan
First stop on our LanGo Abroad trip to South Korea: 서울✨ such an unforgettable time with the best crew! #languageimmersion #korean #languagelearning #한국
LanGo in South Korea! What an amazing third language immersion trip with some of our incredible students!🫰🏻✨
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