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Welcome to Fluency for Free
Melanie Leggatt, Modern & Medieval LanguagesIan Mackey, Information Services
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Melanie LeggattModern and Medieval Languages
Ian MackeyInformation Services
FLUENCY FOR FREE
What you can achieve with a computer, a network connection and your inspiration
Based on a graduate training session entitled
The Web, my browser and me
Historically, an assumption that success was guaranteed if you threw cash at an expensive language-learning package
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Or indeed locked students in a language lab with grammar aids http://www.flickr.com/photos/fake_eyes/342753239/
The truth lies elsewhere
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In your own enthusiasm and ability
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You can avoid the financial cost – it's time and effort that count
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Lots of useful resources online, but no shortcuts
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Indeed the true skill likes in navigating through the piles of detritusto find the hidden gems
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A bit of a gallop so lots of supporting links available online after the sessionif you sign the attendance sheet and leave your email
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Primarily – that this isn't you
Quite the opposite – that you're bubbling over with ideasabout what you'd like to do
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You just need the tools to make it happen
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Introducing you to these tools, where to find them and the possibilities is the focus of this session
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The good news is that today we are spoilt for choice because of Web 2.0 and beyond!
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Before we go any further, an aside about Web 2.0 – just what is it?
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Initially with Web 1.0 we all tooled up and went shopping, then something changed. . .We stopped being merely consumers and started creating instead. Web
2.0 meant write access for all!
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Lots of people posted their own resources and made them freely available for sharing
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The good news for us is that this included language geeks!
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So, we have whole world of digital creativity to explore
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So which pieces of the jigsaw will you need?
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GatewaysHuman-reviewed listings of the best sites around
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GatewaysExamples
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Sites like Bab.la and Wordreference provide excellent online dictionaries
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Sites like Memrise and Busuu provide excellent online vocabulary resources
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Sites like Lang-8 allow you to connect with native speakers who willHelp you with your written language – of course you need to help them too
Tunein has a comprehensive listing of international radio stations playing online
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SOUNDS
Forvo 2,102,797 words 2,173,421 pronunciations 306 languages
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SOUNDS
On demand audio recordings from native speakers
Of course you have to help out others too. Try Rhinospike
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SOUNDS
ICDL provides free access to childrens' books with their limited vocabulary
Excellent for beginners!
The written word
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Online newspaper and media listings provide useful links for more
advanced learners!
The written word
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Online newspaper and media listings provide useful links for more
advanced learners!
The written word
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Generate your own flashcards to help extend your vocabulary and grammar
with Anki
TOOLS
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Italki: Skyping to improve your language skills
TOOLS
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DuoLingo offers totally free high-quality online courses
TOOLS
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Internet Polyglot also offers totally free high-quality online courses
TOOLS
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Join active online forums like the one at Fluentin3months
TOOLS
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Benny Lewis' account of how he went from mature monoglot to polyglot
INSPIRATION
Follow the most productive blogs
INSPIRATION
Follow the most productive blogs
INSPIRATION
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START YOUROWNBLOG!
SERIOUSLY!
If you can drive a web browser you can do it! http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephens-pictures/2962923660/
So how do we find the stuff to get started?
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Thankfully for us, publishing is now as easy as falling off the proverbial log
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And if you can use a web browser and drive a word processor it's easy to do it with style too
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1,000s of people blog on Wordpress so it can't be that difficult,can it?
You don't have to publish for everyone to see until you're ready
It can be somewhere for you to organise all your favouritelinks, record your thoughts and your progress
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Treat it like your personal language learning diary
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But if you do decide to share your experiences you becomepart of the online language learning community too
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And remember you can do it anonymously!
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And you can enjoy knowing you've reciprocally shared back
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Which neatly takes us back to systems like Diigo to help us manage all this information
Scoop.it – curating and displaying your favourite contentcreated by you and others
Looking forward: what next?
Explore the links on the page we'll supply you with
Don't forget to give it a go and have fun!
Questions
Onward to the practical!