Alan Palmer's Language Chat Podcasts

Hello everybody. For my weekend words today I wanted to talk about using short newspaper, magazine or Internet articles to help develop language and also how, at the same time to understand more about a country's culture as well as language. Also how to "think in pictures" to help make the text interesting and to retain vocabulary. If you find interesting articles like the one I have chosen, then language and culture start to merge together a bit more. These are not just words on paper or on a screen, but they make you think of situations and events in the past, at present or in the future. I read somewhere that to learn a language well, we need to: 1. Understand the structure (grammar) of a language and have a good vocabulary. 2. Have the chance to communicate in a language with people who speak it well (Better still, those who speak it as a mother tongue) 3. Understand some of the culture of the country (or countries) where the language is spoken No small task! Having said that, all of us are learning