General Resources for Learning Language

Useful websites

• Growing Participator Approach – 6 phase language learning method
• Fluent in 3 months is a blog with lots of good articles about language learning. Here are a few to get started on:
  • How to make time if you are too busy
  • Mini-goals are the path to acheiving fluency
  • Imagination: Your key to enjoying memorizing hundreds of words quickly

Language learning ideas

• Using a Photo Book (pdf)
• Using Wordless Videos (pdf) There are links to wordless videos in the pdf, but here are some more:
  • The Bridge – topics: crossing a bridge, arguing, problem solving
  • Autumn – topics: friendship, death
  • For the Birds by Pixar – topics: birds, size and weight

Flash cards and Pictures

• 8 weather flash cards from SparkleBox
• 24 parts of the body flash cards from SparkleBox
• ESL flashcards has lots of good sets of flash cards – school objects, daily activities, adjectives and many more.
• Alifbo, the first grader reader is online in PDF form. While not a great book for learning Tajik, this new edition has lots of great pictures in the first 23 pages – portraits of important Tajik people, and pictures of typical Tajik life, and also a colourful alphabet chart. It would be great to print these pictures for use in lessons.