How to Learn a Rare Language like Hiligaynon (with Minimum Frustration)

What’s the best way to learn a rare language?

The truth is, rare languages aren’t the easiest to learn. As soon as I started learning a rare language, Hiligaynon, I was confronted with questions I’d never even thought of before:

  • How do you translate a word when your language isn’t supported by Google Translate?
  • How do you learn on the move with no Duolingo?
  • How do you get listening practice with no podcasts?
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Billy Brick is Languages Centre Manager and principal lecturer in the School of Humanities at Coventry University. He teaches Multimedia in Language Teaching and Learning to undergraduate students and Computer Assisted Language Learning at Masters level and has been involved with numerous JISC/HEA projects including the Coventry On-line Writing Lab (COWL) and the Humbox, an OER project for the humanities. His research interests include Digital Literacies; Social Networking Sites and Language Learning; and Mobile Assisted Language Learning. He is currently developing a beginners’ Italian language learning app, ImparApp, together with colleagues in the university’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab

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