Current and General

On the pages Current and General in future you will find reports, news, comments and other particulars, which are connected to all aspects of learning, speaking and using foreign languages. 

Here should be also space for critical contemplations of all things which impair us in learning languages effectively. 

2007-08-27 - News 

- Contents of Languages in particulars are made in progress continuously, also the collection of links.

- Special themes and pages are in preparation:
---- A page about reading as important help of learning and practice. (in German already available, but not yet translated into English)
---- A special page about language tests - with many links
---- A special page about vocabulary
---- A special page about software programs  
---- A page with discussion about the theme: 
What is so essential for learning languages in a stay abroad?

All of it will be available by end of September, join us then, it surely will be very interesting.

(The next two weeks I will take holydays to spend them in the Viennese woods.)

2007-04-27 - Homepage-Upload

Dear Visitor, it's time now for uploading the English version of this homepage too. I kindly ask all of you to be indulgent towards me but my configuration of pc and programs is more than bad and there is no possibility to change this situation for the next few months.  (In Vienna we do have the proverb "There where isn't money there isn't music too.")

2007-03-15 - Homepage-Upload

Dear visitor of this home page, the German issue of this home page has been online since today, some essential sides, however, must be added first. This means the large part of the links doesn't work yet. This will change at the beginning of next week, I still ask therefore for a little patience. Thanks.

Migrants, Native Language and Foreign Language

For migrants the acquisition of that language which is spoken in their new environment is of them of great importance for the young ones of decisive importance mostly.

- But how does that look like with their own, with their native tongue?
- Will there be done everything which is possible to guaranty them not only to be able to learn the new language but also their own?
- And will there be done not only something but the right one?

The language is an essential feature of the personality, the identity of a man. It is therefore unspeakably sad to get to know people who have grown up without any chance to learn the mother tongue or respectively and the language of the country they live now. These are people who can speak not a single language correctly and are aware of it consciously, yes very conscious and most painful. (Of course there also are natives who don't master the language of one's own correctly, i.e. not in sufficient measure. But fortunately, mostly, they just are not aware of it or replace this circumstance).

We want to deal here in the result also with these and many broader aspects of languages.

Foreign-Languages / Fremdsprachenweb in other languages

Every journey starts with the first step. The first step is the construction of the Site in German with occasional information for foreign-language, primarily English-speaking here. The next step is the development under inclusion of all those topics which have not or too little received attention till now.

The further steps are however of course the construction of foreign-language sides imaginary, step by step.

How you can see here ...

.. the contents of this language web shall not only occupy with learning a language but will go far deeper with the most essential facts.

It probably also doesn't reach only to deal with grammar and learning of vocabulary or even  to refuse to learn them. It also is all about education, it also is all about politics, it is all about all circumstances which have to work with languages.

Languages are the decisive remedy to the man and international understanding for globalization finally taking place in our world of today at which on our planet. This is a fact which we not and never want to disregard here.

The shame fullest missing stands it isn't all about the political models of thought of earlier centuries here, it also is here primarily all about emotional intelligence and all about the search for methods the civilized (?) population of a planet like this one to overcome ours finally: War, illness, hunger, poverty and need. It is all about overcoming envy, hate, ignorance and boundless egoism. This one, and everybody can to it contribute particular a more, the different one of some. The will, the beginning and the try are primarily important to convert the attempt to start this will also.