Language Links Lab

Roberto del Rey López del Castillo, linguist who bases his language teaching on a communicative approach to learning, which provides cultural exchange among students from different countries. Roberto makes his own educational videos, clips and documentaries. He also likes recommending interesting language web sites. This is not a commercial web site. It is our intention to share information with our students in order to encourage and help them with their language studies.

We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are. Anaïs Nin

The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells, National Geographic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journey_of_Man:_A_Genetic_Odyssey

http://books.google.ca/books?id=WAsKm-_zu5sC&lpg=PP1&dq=he%20Journey%20of%20Man%3A%20A%20Genetic%20Odyssey&client=firefox-a&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=true

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html

The Journey of Man. A fantastic documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6A8oGtPc4

Learn about the human body

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/

Watch The Incredible Human Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIcwm1oqQw

World Map (Countries, cities, oceans, rivers, mountains, etc.. )

http://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/Maps/entrance.html

Map of World Languages

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/map/world-languages.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_the_United_States#Official_U.S._regions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England

Listening practice:

Please go to:

Origin of languages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUAPVFFCRQ

Foreign language learning tips and advice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2_dATlRTJg&feature=related

Steve Kaufmann on learning languages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZNYyR7-jUM&feature=related

Then check out different English accents.

Which is the right accent ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vk-WyQkWOE

Different accents. Brilliant !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k&feature=related

Go to Google and type: My English learning Experience Forum

Read how many other students have learnt not only English but other difficult languages.

Stylistic Classification of English Vocabulary
http://www.slideshare.net/Ottamay/stylistic-classification-of-english-vocabulary-presentation

Slang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HUlTKvDUI
For English dialects go to:

http://thesoapdish.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/english-dialect-map/

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/regional-voices/grammatical-variation/

http://www.world-english.org/accent.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language

Interesting Reading: John by Cynthia Lennon

http://www.scribd.com/doc/23366030/JOHN-by-Cynthia-Lennon

Geography is part of language learning. Many expressions are derived from geographic locations, e.g. to carry coal to Newcastle; not for all the tea in China

comunidades-autonomas-de-espana-por-poblacion.doc

El alma está en el cerebro, de Eduardo Punset (very interesting book)

http://www.puntodelectura.com/upload/primeraspaginas/9788466317634.pdf

NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION:

The Human Animal – The Language of the Body (Desmond Morris)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IEfdsD5H0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_gesture

http://www.csupomona.edu/~tassi/gestures.htm

http://images.google.es/images?hl=es&rlz=1W1GGLJ_es&q=gestures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=1WTxSZGBK8zG-QbEtqWzDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=5&ct=title (gestures in different cultures)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3518/is_199506/ai_n8309970/ (interpersonal distance)

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