May 31, 2007
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200 Words a Day! Newzine #35: ZANY WAYS to Learn Language Stuff
May 30, 2007
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1. EXCELERATED VERBS Progressing
1.2 FRENCH PRACTICE SENTENCES COURSES Release
1.3 SPANISH & GERMAN SENTENCES - Close to Release
2. SPANISH TIP: Enjoy eating DIS FRUIT in Spanish
3. FRENCH TIP: A PETTY THIEF is stealing PEAS
4. GERMAN TIP: Can a GURKHA's wife help you remember cucumbers
5. Demo Videos for Download
6. Monthly CD Draw.
7. Victorious in the Month CD Draw and the Products they can select
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1. Works in Progress - Excelerated Verbs
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I am still ploughing ahead with the SPANISH EXCELERATED SPANISH VERBS course. We have now compiled most of the content, with all the regulars, irregulars, past, present, futures, reflexives, compound tenses, subjunctives, imperatives, commands, lots of rules, animations, drawings, cartoons, mnemonics and diagrams.
Each major concept has a TENSE CHARACTER, a cartoon character to help you remember the tenses, their respective verb endings, patterns and constructions. You will think of the English word - e.g. I WOULD SPEAK.... WOULD sounds like WOOD, so we therefore have a Tense Character of TIGER WOODS, the golfer. What he does, will remind you of the pattern for the family of Spanish verbs that translate as 'WOULD' in Spanish....
In the meantime I have to be in Belgium and Germany for a fairly intensive course over June and July, so this is going to impact on our launch date. I shall write some blogs from Belgium, and include a few little differences of Belgian French, e.g. like there are a few differences in the way they count!
Likewise I will write some blogs from Germany... a country that is so beautiful, green, picturesque and steeped in fascinating European history.
But more on the Spanish Verbs .... we are now into the next phase, which is recording of native Spanish speakers and sound editing of the files, hence I STILL need another two to three months...
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1.2 Practice Sentences Courses that go with the 200 Words a Day vocabulary courses - Now available
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OK, with 200 Words a Day courses you can quickly build up vocabulary, and thousands of people have done so with our courses. For further practice we are releasing Courses with Practice Sentences.
These courses take all the words learned in our vocabulary courses, and put them into sentences. Native speakers voice the sentences, so you can hear the word in a sentence, and type it out to test your learning, spelling and understanding of it. Your answers will be scored in the same way as the vocabulary courses.
Now ready are French Sentences #1 and French Sentences #2. These put the 1,000 words learned in 200 Words a Day! French Course #1 into sentences, and French Sentences #2 puts the words from 200 Words a Day Course #2 into sentences. So it works in conjunction with, and as a supplement to the vocabulary course #1 and course #2 respectively.
If you load French Sentences Course 1, you can click from your 200 Words a Day! French vocab course on any picture in the vocabulary course, and this will give you a sample sentence, using that word.
You'll learn hundreds of useful sentences and phrases, and consolidate your vocab learning.
Check out the French Sentences Courses - and check out the limited-time offer
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1.3. SPANISH SENTENCES and GERMAN SENTENCES releasing soon.
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We are very close to releasing Spanish Sentences #1 and #2, [which go with 200 Words a Day! Learn Spanish #1 and #2 respectively], and German Sentences #1 and #2, [which go with 200 Words a Day! Learn German #1 and #2 respectively].
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2. SPANISH TIP: Enjoy eating DIS FRUIT in Spanish.
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If you enjoy eating FRUIT, then you will have no trouble remembering the word for ENJOY in Spanish, because it sounds like DIS FRUIT.
How to learn and remember the Spanish word for enjoy.
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3. FRENCH TIP: A PETTY THIEF is stealing peas
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To help you learn and remember the word for pea, our cartoon features a PETTY thief who is PWETTY POOR. He is popping up at your kitchen window and is stealing PEAS.
The picture will help you learn the word, and remember its gender...
Learn and remember the French for pea.
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4. GERMAN TIP: Can a GURKHA soldier's wife help you remember cucumbers
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A gherkin and a cucumber share the same name in German. To remember the word AND its gender, this cartoon of a GURKHA soldier's wife gobbling down cucumbers might be able to help you.
German Tip - check out the German for cucumber and learn its gender.
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5. DEMO VIDEO DOWNLOADS available
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Now you can see how our courses work with our short 6 minute DEMO VIDEOS. These give a great overview of their workings with actual screenshots. They are available as downloads, at zero cost...zippo, zilch, nada. You can also download written reports of the same from the same page.
Check them out. I have used examples from our Spanish 200 Words a Day course for the Demo, but the principles are much the same for French, German, Welsh.
Just click on the appropriate link:
Click for the 200 Words a Day! Demonstration Videos and reports....
Kind regards,
Kevin Crocombe
www.200words-a-day.com
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6. 200 Words a Day CD-Rom or e-Book to give away each month
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The w*inner of the monthly draw can select a CD-Rom or e-Book from our range which is listed below. The lucky person this month is named below.
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The Winners of the Draw can select from our list of PRODUCTS
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SPANISH
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200 Words a Day! LEARN SPANISH Course #1 CD-Rom - 1000+ words and common phrases.
200 Words a Day! LEARN Spanish Course #1 e-Book.
- - to accompany the Learn Spanish 200 Words a Day Course #1 CD-Rom or be used on its own. Over 150 pages of color, and with all the color pictures in the Spanish 200 Words a Day! Course #1 CD-Rom. Read it on the bus, train, plane or in the park on your lunch break. Use it as a learning consolidator or the sole source!
200 Words a Day! LEARN SPANISH Course #2 - 1000+ words and common phrases.
UNDERSTANDING POR and PARA - Spanish Grammar Course.
LEARN SPANISH Grammar Course:- - 600+ words and common phrases using POR and PARA. Lots of easy ways to REMEMBER when to use these tricky little words. Word-association cartoon pics will remind you of hundreds of real-life examples. Hundreds of sample sentences, using all the main tenses... so you get to simultaneously practice your verbs in the present, past, future, conditional, subjunctives, you name it. All voiced by native Spanish speakers (of course). A super-consolidation course with new learning, reinforcement of 'already-learned' material and superlearning pics.
UNDERSTANDING SER and ESTAR in Spanish - Grammar Course.
LEARN SPANISH Grammar Course:- - 600+ words and common phrases using SER and ESTAR. Lots of easy ways to REMEMBER when to use these tricky little verbs that cause no end of long-term grief for Spanish learners. Word-association cartoon pics will remind you of hundreds of real-life examples. Hundreds of practice sentences, using all the main verb tenses... so you get to simultaneously practice your ser and estar verbs in the present, past, future, conditional, subjunctives, you name it. All voiced by native Spanish speakers (of course). A super-consolidation course with new learning, reinforcement of 'already-learned' material and superlearning pics. An ESTAR Bunny reminds you of ESTAR concepts and a SER-pent reminds you of SER concepts. Come and meet SER-lock Holmes who will remind you of certain SER concepts.
LEARN 101 SPANISH PROVERBS - 101 Proverbs
All relate to the 200 Words a Day! courses, using the Memory Triggers for the main words, and allow you to put some of the vocab you have learned, into action. The pics in the 101 Spanish Proverbs Course all come from Course #1 or Course #2 Spanish, and if you click on them, they will take you to the ‘Memory Trigger’. A great tool for consolidation of your Spanish learning.
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE SPANISH COURSE #1 VOLUME 1
Used to train thousands for US State Department diplomats, this is a traditional learning course aimed at providing a solid base in conversational Spanish. Elsewhere on the web for $250-$300 we list it at $47. But grab one at no charge with one of the SUPER BUNDLES currently available. Comes with 12 hours of mp3 audio and 610 pages of pdf manual. Extremely thorough and in-depth.
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FRENCH
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200 Words a Day! LEARN FRENCH Course #1 - 1000+ words and common phrases
200 Words a Day! LEARN FRENCH Course #2 - 1000+ words and common phrases
FRENCH Sentences Course 1 - Supplement to 200 Words a Day! French Course #1
-800 sentences covering the 1000+ words and common phrases learned in 200 Words a Day! French Course #1. Native speakers voicing sentences that put the words into life.
FRENCH Sentences Course 2 - Supplement to 200 Words a Day! French Course #2
-800 sentences covering the 1000+ words and common phrases learned in 200 Words a Day! French Course #1. Native speakers voicing sentences that put the words into life.
LEARN 101 FRENCH PROVERBS - 101 Proverbs
All proverbs have been selected to relate to the 200 Words a Day! French courses, using the Memory Triggers for the main words, and allow you to put some of the vocabulary you have learned, into action. The pictures in the 101 French Proverbs Course all come from Course #1 or Course #2 French, and if you click on the picture, you'll be taken to the original word's ‘Memory Trigger’. A great tool for consolidation of your French learning.
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE FRENCH COURSE #1 VOLUME 1
Used to train thousands for US State Department diplomats, this is a traditional learning course aimed at providing a solid base in conversational French. Elsewhere on the web for $250-$300 we list it at $47. But grab one at no cost with one of the SUPER BUNDLES currently available. Comes with 12 hours of mp3 audio and 455 pages of pdf manual. Extremely thorough and in-depth.
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GERMAN
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200 Words a Day! LEARN GERMAN Course #1 - 1000+ words and common phrases
200 Words a Day! LEARN GERMAN Course #2 - 1000+ words and common phrases
LEARN 101 GERMAN PROVERBS - 101 Proverbs
All these German proverbs have been selected to relate to the 200 Words a Day! German courses, using the Memory Triggers for the main words in those courses, and allow you to put into action some of the vocabulary you have learned. The pictures in the 101 German Proverbs Course all come from Course #1 German, and if you click on the picture, you'll be taken to the original word's ‘Memory Trigger’. A great tool for consolidation of your German learning, and hearing German in action.
FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE GERMAN COURSE #1 VOLUME 1
Used to train thousands for US State Department diplomats, this is a traditional learning course aimed at providing a solid base in conversational German. Elsewhere on the web for $250-$300 we list it at $47. But grab one at no cost - gratis - with one of the SUPER BUNDLES currently available. Comes with 12 hours of mp3 audio and 455 pages of pdf manual. Extremely thorough and in-depth.
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WELSH
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200 Words a Day! LEARN WELSH Course #1 - 1000+ words and common phrases
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7. NAME OF THE VICTORIOUS ENTRANTS
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This month our victorious entrant are Zach Brown - niuatoputapu of addresses in the e-Universe.
Please contact us by email within the next 30 days. We will email you so please make sure you have whitelisted our email address, so that our emails are not being filtered out by your filters.
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8. Entering the Monthly CD-Rom or e-Book Draw
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To enter the monthly draw for a CD-Rom, or e-Book of your choice, click on the link Enter the Draw.
You'll need to answer some easy questions (we'll even give you the answers...!).
You can enter every month if you so wish!
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9. Plus some mini courses by email
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Don't forget to also enrol in our 7-part mini-courses. At present we have these available as mini-Spanish lessons, but we will have French 7-part mini-lessons also soon.
Spanish 7-part e-Courses
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10. Frequently Asked Questions and Tutorials
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Check out the Frequently Asked Questions online. It is on the 200words-a-day.com website marked FAQ on the Navbar (Navigation Bar) on the left side of the page.
If you have queries about anything, whether it be about the course or about postage you may find the answers on this page.
Common questions relate to the typing of the different foreign characters, e.g. upside-down question-marks, accents, apostrophes!
Sometimes users are not typing in a little accent or letter here or there, resulting in them dropping points in their tests.
Frequently Asked Questions about 200 Words a Day Accelerated Language Learning
There is also a great deal of help on the Tutorial Pages, which is of particular benefit to course users. If you have ordered the course and are awaiting its arrival in the post you can cover the Tutorials while you wait.
200 Words a Day! Excelerated Language Learning Tutorials - How to Use the Spanish, French, German and Welsh Language Courses
Don't forget there is also a Tutorial on the CD-Rom, which you really should do before starting the course!!
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11. Back Issues of these e-Zines
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All back issues of these ezines are available - gratis, non charge - at the link at the bottom of the newsletter.
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12. Contact Us
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Contact us at any time.
You might find the answers quicker on the FAQ or Tutorial pages as described above, but do feel free to hit us with any questions.
Contact Us
That's it for this newzine.
Don't forget if there is someone you know learning a language, this ezine might be of interest to them. Pass it on!
Adiós - au revoir - auf wiedersehen - hwyl fawr.
Kevin Crocombe and the 200 Words a Day Team
200 Words a Day! Newzine #35 - ©2007.
31 May, 2007
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