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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Top tips for getting your company to pay for your training

    Improving or learning foreign language skills is beneficial not only on a personal level, but also on a professional one too. Whilst a lot of companies can see the benefit of training in this area, some need a little persuasion when it comes to helping fund it...

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Top tips for westerners learning Asian languages

    It seems to me that Western languages have a lot of similarities.

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Latest trends in language learning

    The use of the computers and the internet as a means of learning and practising languages has increased significantly in recent years.

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    Making Progress: Making progress in learning a language – key points to remember

    Sometimes when learning a language you seem to make a lot of progress quite quickly, other times you don’t seem to be making much progress at all, and occasionally people even feel as though they're going backwards! How do you keep making progress?

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: How do you define fluency?

    Many people learning foreign languages hope to become fluent. What is meant by this varies from person to person.

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: 10 things not to do when learning a new language

    There is lots of advice available on 'must do's' when it comes to making your language learning a success. There aren't so many tips about what you shouldn't to do though, when really the two go hand in hand...

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    Making Progress: Making progress in a Language

    When learning a language it can be useful to monitor your progress.

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    Attitudes to Language Learning, Making Progress: Language learning phobias

    Learning languages isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, granted.

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    Having a goal: Language learning: setting yourself goals

    When you learn something new - whether it's a sport, a musical instrument or a foreign language - it can really help to have a goal, or set of goals. A goal will not only motivate you and provide the impetus to keep going; it will also give you a valuable means of tracking your progress.

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    Making Progress: How to make language part of your everyday life

    Sarah Gooding, Editor at Cactus, looks at how we can inject some foreign language fun into our lifestyles

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    Planning for a course, Having a goal: How do I make language learning fun for my children?

    How to encourage the kids to pick up a language when young.