Have you ever wondered how it happens that children learn languages so quickly and easily? What’s the secret of this amazing power of young language learners? 1. The power of novelty Children absorb new knowledge …
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Mistakes – Friends or Foes?
by Aggie Chapman Mistakes are an inherent part of learning, and though nobody likes making them, they can really help us learn, so long as we go about them the right way. What does that …
A Simple Guide to Language Levels – B2 aka Vantage
by Aggie Chapman How do we know that we are at the B2 level? Well, two things may give us a hint: we are able to say pretty much what we want to say, and …
A Simple Guide to Language Levels – B1 aka Threshold
by Aggie Chapman B1 is quite an interesting level. In a nutshell it could be summed up as the moment when we’re starting to be able to say more or less what we want to. …
A Simple Guide to Language Levels – A2 aka Waystage
by Aggie Chapman Not dissimilar to the previous level, A2 is still characterised by a large degree of repetition of the limited range of vocabulary and grammar, but contrary to the A1 level, there is …
A Simple Guide to Language Levels – A1 aka Breakthrough
by Aggie Chapman In the next few posts I’ll try to decipher the mystery of the CEFR levels and briefly outline what each of them means for us, learners. Knowing what we should be able …
CEFR demystified – all you need to know about language level classification system
by Aggie Chapman Learning a foreign language, as any other goal that we set, should be measurable. At the beginning, everything is new and exciting and the sheer fact that we are learning is enough …