PROBLEMS WITH YOUR LANGUAGE? MEET THE CONCORDANCER!

Do you have problems with grammar, collocation, or frequency of use? Have you ever wondered what a certain word collocates with? What preposition it goes with? Today I´d like to show you how to use the Internet to find solutions to these difficulties. Here are several videos about online tools you can use.
The first one is about how to use the Concordancer. Do you recognize the voice? I hope you find it useful!

The next video contains more information about the Concordancer…

…and the last is about how to google words or expressions to find concordances. You can find it in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxYEYAck3o4.

For more tools of the same kind, look through the related videos in youtube.

And, as I always ask you to give an opinion: have you found these videos useful? Leave a comment about how you have used them and what you have learnt with this information.

Welcome, and a new topic!

To all our students this year, welcome! I hope you like this blog, and you find it useful for your studies.
In a short while we will be updating our slideshow with photos of you, so dress smartly for our next class!

Well, and now, the new topic. Here it goes:

NO PAIN, NO GAIN

Are you more like this …

… or like this?

Let´s begin the year by analysing this saying. Do you know what it means? (Find out if you don´t!) More personally, how do you interpret it? What does it mean, in your opinion?

Is it true that we can only get what we want by making efforts? Does this idea apply to life? To your studies? How?