Mark-The Linguist's blog

Les Jeux Olympiques

2008-08-28T21:54:17Z

Here is my latest effort with Marianne's corrections! Récemment, je suis amuser me suis amusé à voir les jeux olympiques à de Pékin. Premièrement, il y avait le nageur américain Michael Phelps qui a gagné 8 médailles d'or. Ça c'est incroyable! D'...

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Writing in French

2008-08-23T17:05:43Z

I have decided to start writing on my blog again. This time in French, since that is what I'm studying now on LingQ. Here is a recent effort with my original version first followed by the corrected version. Mes étudies en français Au proche futu...

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A community of language learners

2008-04-19T05:04:54Z

Myself and all the friends in my neighbourhood are members of The Linguist online community of language learners. Right now you can learn English at The Linguist and soon you will be able to learn other languages. All you need to learn a new langu...

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A funny story

2007-09-19T16:51:49Z

I read this funny news story and thought I would share it.

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Skype phishing scam

2007-09-08T16:42:22Z

I received an email the other day, that looked like it was from Skype, asking me to update my account information. I thought it looked a little funny and didn't click on anything but just wanted to let you all know about it. Here is some informati...

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My Son is Using LingQ

2007-09-01T05:14:00Z

My son, Kyle, started using LingQ this past week. He's eight years old and he's working on his French. He goes to French Immersion School but would like to improve his French since I think he feels he isn't understanding it as well as he would lik...

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Government handouts

2007-07-22T19:16:41Z

Here's an interesting post from Marc Andreesen's blog on an EU program to fund research into creating an alternative to Google in Germany. I don't know where to begin to comment on this but I think the thought process of the EU goes something like...

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LingQ Beta Launch

2007-04-27T00:13:29Z

Finally! Our new site is ready! The new version of TheLinguist is called LingQ ("link") and is now open to our active members for beta testing. It won't be long now until the full multi-language launch. All you active members, start using it! Let...

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Invite your friends, easily!

2007-02-13T05:58:50Z

I just wanted to let everyone know about a few more updates we have made lately. Some of you have probably seen some of these things yourselves already. First of all, we have now built our Member-Guest coupon program into the member area itself. ...

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Finally! A Search Feature in The Linguist Library

2007-02-03T02:10:56Z

On a happy note, we have finally added a search field in The Linguist Library. It will search by content title and by keywords that are in the system. It is on the front page of the library and on the category pages as well. Let us know how you li...

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