I knew the Amish spoke their own language but I’ve never taken the time to find out more about it. This short video tells you about the language and how kid are taught at school. Pretty Interesting.
*Edit* I removed the video because it was breaking the sites code. Here’s a link to the video.
What language do the Amish speak? The Amish speak Dutch or Pennsylvania Dutch which is a dialect of German. I’m sure since they’ve been isolated for near 200 years now that the language has evolved in to a creole of sorts.
Alright so here’s another update on the construction of Le Tutor Language School located in Tempe, Arizona. You can drive by and check us out if you like we are almost open. We are having a small delay with some permit issues that weren’t taken care of but we are hopefully getting fixed. The store looks great and will be all but finished as of Wednesday of this week.
1855 E Guadalupe a-104 Tempe, Arizona 85283. We are located on the North East corner of Guadalupe and McClintock on the North side of the Fry’s Shopping center.
Tempe, Arizona Language Classes start August 4th 2008
Alright everyone has been asking for some footage of our new school opening August 4th. It took some figuring out but now I now how to edit and format videos to be able to upload them to YouTube. Its my first attempt so be kind. This is about 2 weeks ago when the builders had already gutted the location and had just put up the framing.
I know some of the future posts will be out of order but oh well. I’ve some picks on the demolition and pre demolition stages. I’ll also be doing a video tomorrow on site of the progress. Everything is really coming a long and is starting to look really good. I’m personally anxious for the carpet to get put in because I think that it will really bring things together.
Le Tutor Grand Opening. On July 21st 2008 Le Tutor will open its doors to the public. Le Tutor Language School will offer Kids and Adult conversational group and private lessons. Spanish, French, English as a Second Language, Chinese, German and Russian will be offered. Stay tuned to our blog for more information and announcements.
We will have our grand opening party on Saturday July 19th 2008 starting at 7pm. Anyone in the Phoenix, Arizona area who reads this blog is more than welcome to come and meet our teachers, hang out, play games, eat our food, win door prizes and sit in on some language class demonstrations.
Stay tuned for more announcements and photos of our locations remodeling process.
We are currently accepting pre enrollment for our group classes and expect them to fill up quickly as we have 3 years worth of contacts who will be interested in our group classes. If you are interested please call or email us and we will help you get registered for our classes.
480-626-5180
info@letutor.com
Kids Classes: Spanish, French and Chinese – $285 (-$35 off for pre enrollment) Group Classes: Spanish, French, English as a Second Language or ESL, Chinese, Russian and German – $385 (-$50 off for pre enrollment)
Our new address:
Le Tutor Language School
1855 E Guadalupe a-104
Tempe, Arizona 85283
Reuter’s has covered the new movie called “The Linguists” which just debuted at Sundance and has gotten great reviews. Go check out the Trailer here: http://www.thelinguists.com. The basic premise is a PhD student is travelling the world with a friend trying to experience and record as many dying languages as possible. There are a thousands of languages that will die in the next decade and some only have a few speakers living today. So in an effort to record and document these languages these two adventures set out to find the last speakers of these languages.
Some other blogs that have mentioned the film are:
Le Tutor Language services has been offering translation services for 3 years and have many satisfied customers. As we grow as a company we think it is important to focus our efforts and keep them separate so that our customers receive the best service possible. For this reason we have decided to separate our translation services from our language school.
Now our Phoenix, Arizona language school will be able to focus solely on providing the best foreign language experience in Arizona and our Translation services can be the best translation service in Arizona.
2008 will be big year for LeTutor and LeTranslator. We thank all of our customers, teachers and translators who have contributed to our success and plan on working harder and smarter in 2008 so that we can continue to grow and help the community.
Here are a few interesting articles written by some other foreign language bloggers.
The Linguist posts:
Should we ask Why? – Steve makes some good points. Sometimes you have to put aside logic and just accept that something is said or phrased a certain and it means X. Later on you can ask why. I think the best question to ask when learning a foreign language is HOW? How do you pronounce, say or ask X.
Stop teaching languages in schools? I think this is more of a controversial post that should be thought out more before just throwing out the idea. I agree that the current education system is not working but can be successful if given a full make over and focuses more on real life experience.
I hope that everyone got to relax and enjoy the holidays but it’s time to get back to the grind. So to kick off the new year right you need to set some foreign language learning goals for 2007. The most important things about language learning or any goal is to just get started. So to help you with your New Year Language goal setting here are some guidelines to setting goals.
1. Make your goals Challenging yet Realistic 2. Your goals should be Measurable 3. Make your Goals Specific 4. Place your goals in a Visible location for Frequent Review
So here are my foreign language goals for 2007
1. Speak French with a conversation partner 1 hour per week.
2. Study Spanish conjugations 1 hour every 2 weeks
3. Speak Spanish with wife 1 day per week
Alright language bloggers it’s your turn to set your goals for 2007. I’m calling you out.
So consider yourselves officially called out and start blogging about your foreign language goals for 2007. For my readers leave a comment about what your goals are for 2007.
Thanks to my friend David Askaripour the creator of Mind Petals for the inspiration to write this post. I’ve been thinking for quite sometime about how foreign languages are perfect for entrepreneurs. Foreign languages are great for entrepreneurs because of the amazing business opportunities they can give them. The United States is a hard market to enter because there is so much competition, established markets, and a lot of people with more money than most new entrepreneurs. However, if you a brave, adventurous and willing to learn a foreign language there are millions of opportunities available.
In foreign countries where economies are weak or gaining strength the same industries that are already dominated here are practically non existent there. Think if you created a premium coffee brand in Russia, well someone already has but you can take the same type of American models and apply them to foreign markets. (Coffee Entrepreneur Story). What if you took the Borders Bookstore model to Brazil, created the Ebay of China (again that’s been done.),or any other nationally recognized and successful model to another country. There are huge opportunities out there but you need to have certain skills to navigate the complicated world of foreign economies.
Obviously you need to be able to navigate the foreign legal system, understanding the needs and wants of your market, but most importantly you need to be able to communicate. If you cannot communicate with local professionals or customers and understand their needs and wants you won’t succeed. The only way to understand and connect with a culture or market is to speak it’s language.
So how does a busy entrepreneur start learning a foreign language. Well lucky for you you have the advantage of being and an entrepreneur and the number one rule of entrepreneurialism (is that a word) is to JUST START. So here’s your entrepreneur language learning checklist.
Pick a country or language where you would like to start a business.
Start studying
Remember the secret to studying is actually practicing the language by speaking.
Don’t forget to not only study the language but the culture and history of the country
Make friends locally that speak the language and ask them tons of questions
Take an investigative trip to the country to scope things out and to practice the language with natives.
So go take advantages of all of the opportunities available in the world. Don’t limit yourself to just the English speaking countries just because you are intimidated by language barriers. Anyone can learn a foreign language and if you have the desire to be successful you will.
*If you are starting your business locally you can still apply all the same lessons that I just mentioned just focus on the local immigrant populations that speak the language.
