Empowering Language Learners and Teachers
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So you want to teach yourself a language but you don’t know how to get started. Living in the Age of Information is a curse and a blessing. We are truly fortunate to have this many resources at our disposal to be able to help us learn a new language. At the same time, because there are so many options, it can be very hard to choose which is the best app or resource.
This website contains some of the best resources for language learners and teachers alike. I specialize in English and Spanish, but I am a lifelong learner, and am constantly trying my hand at different languages. I am currently studying Japanese, and my next mission is French. I hope the Language of Lukas website is a great resource for my fellow language learners.
Language Learning Resources
This article is not a comprehensive list of language learning resources, rather my own personal preferences. If you would like a more comprehensive layout of what is available to you in the way of language learning resources, I recommend checking out lingualift.com’s post: 100 best language self-learning resources.
The History of the English Language
Like much of human history, the origin of the English language is a long and bloody tale. It stretches back into the early years of the Common Era, and it is littered with violence and conquest. Towards the end of Rome’s reign over the world, the British Isles, an area inhabited by the Celts, was subject to a brutal invasion by North Germanic tribes. Among these tribes were the Angles and Saxons, who spoke a language that is the ancient ancestor of English.
ESL Teacher Resources
One of the hottest new trends in the modern English-speaking world is going abroad to teach English as a foreign language. People choose to go abroad for a variety of reasons. Some just want to travel, and believe that teaching English is a perfect career path to check out new places and opportunities. Others are more concerned with the academic side, and are interested in furthering their studies of linguistics or education by attempting to teach the difficult and intriguing language of English. There are, of course, also people who merely want to teach English abroad because they want to take a break from their life in their home country, and make a comparatively decent salary in a place with a low cost of living. Whatever your reason for teaching abroad, it is undeniable that teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) is much harder than it seems.