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Occasionally we receive requests from various kinds of organizations asking us to disseminate information about them to our members. In the past, we have generally published such information only when a FLAME member has made a recommendation. At the FLAME Board meeting that took place on Jan. 17, 2007, it was decided to create a special page devoted to information that is potentially of interest to our members--with the understanding that this does not constitute an endorsement by the FLAME Advisory Board.

Kristina Ryberg has retired from Spanish teaching K-12 and has 22 years worth of teaching aids/materials/books/games/realia/posters/etc.  to donate to an enthusiastic beginning teacher who is lacking in the budget area.  It's about 10 boxes.  Catch, have to take it all and you have to come to Bucksport to pick it up.  Is anyone interested?  contact  rybergk@gmail.com

Please click on the thumbnails to get a better view of some samples of the kinds of materials that are being offered.

 

This is my "Lean Startup"... my attempt to change the way people learn languages, forever.

I'm not a designer, nor am I a programmer (although I took a few first year computer science courses at uni and have always hacked around with websites, since I was 13)... but I taught myself enough to put this together.

The idea was inspired by a Japanese course I took in university. It was the most challenging course I took (even more challenging than Computer Science 115 where my fist assignment was to "design a system to schedule the arrivals and departures at an airport"), because I couldn't just "figure it out": I had to come up with an effective way to learn enough of a language to pass my aural exam at the end of the semester - without distracting from my other courses. My peers had all taken Japanese courses before, and I was stuck not only learning 3 alphabets for the first time, but also how to speak and read them. Repetition and staggered recall worked really well for me, and Populearn is a modern-day incarnation of my "Phrase Book Flash Cads".

Learning languages takes time, and if you are willing to put in some work I can help you. Every week I release new lessons, and I'm working on some pretty cool new features that will be launched soon (so check back often). Inspired by that restaurant with a "set your own price" menu, someday I think I will go with a "Pay what you can" model... so don't worry, Populearn will always be free.

I could go on, but you might as well just try out a few lessons yourself?

¡Miraflores cumple 20 años!

Para celebrar, le ofrecemos una muestra gratuita de ÚTIL : Tareas de expresión escrita basadas en Internet
 
Libro fotocopiable
 
Para obtener la copia gratuita del libro:
 
1.   Complete la página que sigue.
2.    Mándenos la página a nuestro número fax:

  514-483-1212 antes del 15 de octubre, 2012.

 Si desea mayor información, visite nuestra página web

www.miraflores.org

 El cargo de $6.00 es para cubrir el costo del envío.

 Puede enviar este correo a cualquier amigo que sea profesor de español en Maine.

Le ofrecemos una copia por profesor.

We have received several requests from teachers asking us to accept checks instead of a fax and credit card. 

We are therefore asking teachers who would like to receive Util to make out a check for 6.00 to Miraflores and to send it to
Miraflores
PO Box 247
Richford, VT 05476
 

Miraflores le propone cientos de libros y audio libros gratuitos para profesores y estudiantes. El Libro Total cuenta con obras en el dominio público,cedidos por el titular de su derecho de autor o porque su copyright ha expirado. Esto es válido internacionalmente. Encontrará los clásicos de la lengua, novelas, poesía, teatro y más, como también otros mucho más recientes. Son libros gratuitos, como también muchísimos audio libros. Todos son libros con el derecho de autor caducado. Todos los libros pueden ser descargados desde nuestro sitio web www.miraflores.org. Pulse en Sharing / Compartiendo. Los libros están organizados por país, por autor y por título.

 

Miraflores offers you hundreds of free books and audio books. Under the title El Libro Total, professionals and students will find works that are in the public domain, either because the author has decided to cede the copyright, or because the copyright has expired. This is valid internationally. You will find all the Spanish classics, novels, poetry, theater and more, and a many more recent books. The copyright has expired for all of these books. You can download them from our website at www.miraflores.org. Please go to Sharing / Compartiendo. The books are organized by country, by author and by title.

PRESENTE – topics for group oral presentations on cultural themes, a new publication from Miraflores (2011).

Preview all topics on our website  www.miraflores.org   

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Eight sections, each covers a different geographic area.

 

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Includes instructions for the presenters, an assignment for the listeners and provides the first sentence or sentences for every presentation.

 

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Internet key words provided for every topic.

 

The eight sections are as follows: El mundo hispano, España, México, Países andinos, Cono Sur, Centroamérica, El Caribe, Los Estados Unidos
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bullet In addition, all the topics have three levels of difficulty, A - beginner, B- intermediate and C-advanced.
bullet It is written entirely in the target language, Spanish.

Download directly from our website, or should you wish to buy the Miraflores downloads with a PO order, add an EMAIL address to the order. We will send the downloads bought to the email address provided. And, you can email us your order. We’ll call you, get the details and send you the files via email.

Miraflores Canada CP 458 Succ. Victoria Montreal, QC H3Z 2Y6 Canada

Miraflores USA P.O. Box 248 Richford, VT 05476 USA

 

Part of a review of Presente / NECTFL Journal, forthcoming / Eileen Angelini

Presente does more than make it easy for teachers to incorporate the Culture standard of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning.  It promotes a positive view of other cultures so that students move beyond cultural stereotypes. Moreover, since the research for the oral presentations on cultural themes is based on the Internet, Presente fulfills the educational objective of having students use technology in meaningful ways.

In conclusion, finding a rich variety of subjects to motivate in their work is one of the teachers’ greatest challenges.  It is thus that Presente becomes a time-saving resource that integrates technology and addresses the wide range of personal interests of the students.  No matter what the background or interests of the students, given the breath of topics provided in Presente, each and every one should be able to find a cultural theme to his/her liking.  A preview on the Miraflores’ website is available for every presentation topic.  Furthermore, if a potential adopter of Presente is not comfortable downloading materials from a website, Miraflores will send them directly to a teacher’s email box.


 

 

 Preview all topics on our website  www.miraflores.org  

Costa Rica Immersion Program

Join us for a trip of a lifetime. Live with a host family in Tilarán, Guanacaste to truly experience Costa Rican culture andcosta-rica-rainbow hospitality. Explore the country in the morning to avoid the seasonal rains, enjoy lunch with your host family, then study Spanish in the afternoons at a beautiful, nearby campus. Learn the best of nature and language from experts in the field.  Day trips will include*:

1. Trip to coffee plantation or gold mine

2. Visit a working ranch

3. Visit Lake Arenal

4. Nature walks

5. Salsa/Merengue dance lessons

 

 Costa Rica Immersion Program
Tellus Languages Abroad provides cultural immersion based language courses in Europe (French, Spanish, German and Italian). We're also part of larger educational organisation - Tellus Group - running 2x English language schools in England and multiple projects under EU Lifelong Learning scheme. For more information, click here.

Cemanahuac Educational Community in Cuernavaca, Mexico

For over 25 years, Cemanahuac has offered Spanish language study in Mexico. It is an excellent program for those who wish to quickly develop a working proficiency in Spanish.

In addition to the four-hour language classes each day, taught by native speakers of Spanish from 9:00 to 1:00 each weekday, students may participate in professional seminars, field trips, and conversation and vocabulary classes in the other half of the day.

Individual students at Cemanahuac enjoy high-quality language programs and special professional vocabulary workshops, as well as volunteer opportunities in Cuernavaca (for those whose study programs are four weeks or more).

 

 For more information, contact Katherine Derby at kathi@cemanahuac.com and visit our web site at www.cemanahuac.com .

Cemanahuac Educational Community
USA: 37 Whitehouse Road, Rochester, NH 03867
(603)608-6801
 

 

This is a  new source of information for learning Spanish abroad. www.spanishcourses.info  is an independent directory of Spanish schools with all information provided by them directly, no middle man, and lots of information on the countries and cities so that you can make the best choice.

http://www.spanishcourses.info 

 

EducationDegree.com   is the biggest directory on the web of teacher education degree programs from 1,700+ colleges and universities around the US.  

The directory of Masters in Education programs is at http://www.educationdegree.com/programs/masters-in-education/ .

We also offer a $2,500 teacher education scholarship.

Miraflores, the cultural publisher, now has two  teaching aides on their website:

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- first, teachers can preview every single publication without exception and

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- second, teachers can download the thematic units directly from the website and save.

Miraflores publishes

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- interdisciplinary thematic units for Spanish and French (Abrir paso and Parcours series);

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- Web-based writing assignments based on cultural subjects (ÚTIL) and

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- group oral presentations based on culture (PRESENTE, forthcoming).

 Miraflores offers teachers the tools to add culture

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- by country – every Spanish speaking country without exception, many French speaking countries

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- by theme – history, art, geography, literature, music, science and more

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- by level – beginners, intermediate, advanced

 All thematic units, in both SPANISH and FRENCH, are available in three formats: copy master, workbook and downloadable formats.

 Please contact us for further information.

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Eva N. Echenberg, Miraflores, the cultural publisher, P.O. 247, Richford, VT 05476

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Tel. (514) 483-0722, Toll free 1-888-444-7771, Fax: (514) 483-1212

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miraflores@sympatico.ca

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www.miraflores.org

Language Magazine is an independent publication for language professionals, with more than 103,000 monthly readers. Check them out at www.languagemagazine.com

 

 

 

 

Study Spanish at the most prestigious universities in Spain.

http://www.spanish-university.es/

Elena Gozalo Cardaba
Spanish-University.es
Tel: +34.952.222.998
Fax:+34.952.211.437
info@spanish-university.es

 

The Language Travel Company specializes in organizing Italian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic language immersion programs for students of all levels and ages in carefully chosen study locations across the world.

Our language schools are all fully accredited and offer the highest standards of teaching, and excellent facilities in carefully chosen study locations across the world. Many of our programs qualify for the transfer of academic credit and also offer full cultural programs to compliment our student's language learning.

 In addition to this, all members of our advisory team, including myself, are language graduates who have a great deal of personal experience in studying abroad. Our work is based on a genuine enthusiasm for wonderful experiences of living and learning languages in the country where they are spoken! We are always happy to help students decide which course and which location (we visit all of our schools personally) will best suit the needs of the individual, as well give them real advice on what to expect when they study abroad.

 Jeffrey Hayes, Language Travel Consultant, The Language Travel Company, 31 St. James Ave., Suite 770, Boston, MA 02116

http://www.languagetravelcompany.com

 
This web site -- http://www.makebeliefscomix.com -- allows children and adults to create their own comic strips.  They can select from 15 fun characters with different moods  -- happy, sad, angry, worried – and write words for  blank talk and thought balloons to make their characters talk and think.  There also are story ideas and prompts to help users create graphic stories.

This site can be used by educators to teach language, reading and writing skills, and also for students in English-as-a-Second-Language programs to facilitate self-expression and storytelling, as well as computer literacy.  It is now being used in 160 countries by educators. Some educational therapists use it with deaf and autistic people to help them understand concepts and communicate.  Parents and children can create stories together, print them to create comic books or email them to friends and family.  Others will find the site a resource to be creative, calm down and have fun.

Because so many Spanish-speaking users asked us for the ability to write their cartoons in Spanish as well as in English, we recently upgraded the site to accept words written in Spanish, including appropriate accent marks. This can be a useful tool for someone who is learning Spanish as well as someone whose first language is Spanish.   This feature is being expanded to other  languages, such as French, Italian and German.

I am hoping that you will share http://www.makebeliefscomix.com  with your colleagues, teachers, students or readers of your publications and resource lists.  The site is free with no advertising.  Any help you might offer in getting word out about this project is very appreciated.

If you can suggest other people or groups whom I might contact to make them aware of the site please send me their names, email addresses or phone numbers.  Any list-servs I might join?  Relevant Internet resource sharing groups would be helpful, too.  It takes a community to build a useful resource like this one.

As one who learned to read with comic books, I know that creating comic strips can help people tap into their creativity and practice their language and storytelling skills.  The site is free and stems from my lifelong mission to create resources that help people find their voice and express themselves. The concept for makebeliefscomix.com  is derived from my earlier books, Make Beliefs and Make Beliefs for Kids of All Ages (which can be found on my other web site:
http://www.billztreasurechest.com).  A Make Beliefs interactive feature appeared for 13 years on my syndicated Student Briefing Page for Newsday, and in National Geographic’s World Magazine.

 

I am Jing Zhang, the director of Bangor Chinese School and the member of FLAME. We would like to share our school's information with all our friends.  The website of the school is www.bangorchinese.com, location is 53 Cumberland St., Bangor, Maine; phone number is 207-990-0710; email is jingzhang@bangorchinese.com. We are teaching Mandarin to all ages and all levels.

 
Let me know please if there are any I can help.

 
www.mangolanguages.com  is a new, FREE website that offers foreign  language instruction in about a dozen different languages including:  Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Greek,  Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, English for Polish and Spanish  speakers.
 
 www.mangolanguages.com launched on August 31, 2007 and as of late September 2007 the site reports that more than 80,000  people worldwide have become registered users, including foreign  language instructors. Some of these teachers have used the website in  their classrooms and praised it as a wonderful compliment to their  teaching and an interesting way to incorporate technology into their  curriculum.
 
 For more information, contact:.
 
 Jeannette Tarcha
 PR Manager, Mango Languages
 734.812.0812
 www.mangolanguages.com

 

I am Sylvie Reeves, a French national married to an Englishman. After 6 years living and working in England, we settled down in France in 1987. I was head of the Language Centre of the Saumur Chamber of Commerce and Industry for nearly twenty years until I decided to do my own thing and registered my small business in December 2006.

My wish is to share our quality of life with the international francophiles who love culture, history, heritage, gastronomy and fine wines and local savoir- faire du terroir, offering them 101 ways to improve their level of French ,  either by intensive residential courses for those living abroad or by traditional weekly classes or theme workshops for the Loire Valley residents. We are also in the process of renovating part of our property, due to open as a self-catering accommodation in June this year.

We live down the road from The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. I have resorted to the dynamism and savoir-faire of a nutshell of professionals who really want to make sure Fontevraud and its inhabitants will be remembered as a once in a lifetime experience. Richard the enlumineur, Michel the upholsterer, Einav the jewellery maker, Fabrice, master chef in La Licorne just opposite my house.. all of us strive for a convivial fruitful exchange with visitors from all over the world... making them share the secrets of our cultural heritage.

Sylvie REEVES
"Parfum de France"
40 rue Robert d'Arbrissel
49590 Fontevraud l'Abbaye

Tel: +33 (0)2 41 51 78 74
Mobile: +33 (0)6 78 94 36 19

email : info@parfumdefrance-fr.com

www.parfumdefrance-fr.com

 

German Language Courses in Munich

The DeutschAkademie offers German intensive courses in small groups with experienced teachers. Also preparatory courses for TestDaf and other German language certificates.  Also offers preparatory courses for diverse language certificates. Moreover, offers accomodation at German families or at student residences. The school is located right in the center of Munich.

URL: http://www.deutschakademie.de/munich-german-course/

 

French for Children and Beginners

Je m’appelle Stéphane Husar, originaire de Paris et basé à Sydney. J'ai été prof de FLE, et suis maintenant auteur-compositeur et directeur d'un petit label-musique, ABC MELODY (http://www.abcmelody.com ).

 Nous produisons des CD et autres produits pour l'enseignement des langues dont le français bien sûr. (1,2,3 SOLEIL, 1,2,3 TECHNO, CARTES POSTALES, SING & LEARN FRENCH)

 J'ai, en 2001, effectué des voyages-ateliers sur la chanson sur invitation des ambassades de France en Europe et aux USA (Washington, Philadelphie et Baltimore).

 J'essaie de me faire connaître mieux aux USA parmi les enseignants. Nous avons un distributeur: WORLD OF READING très actif mais petit pour un si grand territoire!

 ABC MELODY verse 5% de ses profits à l'UNICEF.

ABC MELODY

"Catchy tunes to make language learning fun!"     

51/61 Marlborough St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010Po Box 561, Woollahra NSW 1350, Australia

Phone:  61-2-9699 6466/9300 6186; Fax: 61-2-9300 6439; Mob: 0403 766 441

email:  stef@abcmelody.com

http://www.abcmelody.com

Translation Services ( http://www.lingo24.com ) offers a range of language services including free online English-German translation tool ( http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans.html ), free online German paraphrasing tool ( http://www.lingo24.com/parasaurus-german.html ) and a collection of English-German useful phrases ( http://www.lingo24.com/useful-phrases-en-de.html )

 
Lingo24's ContexTrans service is a  free tool combines both Machine Translation (MT) and Translation Memory (TM) technologies and allows you to search for real-world translations of a word or phrase between two languages. These results are derived from high-quality human translations and allow you to see the context in which the words are used in a foreign language, helping you to choose the most appropriate translation.

 
Title: Apple Languages

Description: Language travel company offering language courses abroad

URL: http://www.applelanguages.com