{"id":622,"date":"2013-03-05T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:53:00","slug":"622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/622\/","title":{"rendered":"How Technology Can Help You Hone Your Languages Skills (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Play Online Games <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since I mentioned games I might as well go on to talk about the fact that you can find internet games in a lot of different languages and you can even play some of them when you are far from home. This is a brilliant way of picking up new words without even really being aware of it. If they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/russian\/birmingham\/\">going to take Russian courses Birmingham students<\/a> should be sure to ask their native speaking teachers to recommend some games to them. Now if I can just work out what Jet Set Willy is called in Spanish my life will be complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Read a Book <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love reading books but I realise that some of you have moved on from paper books, haven\u2019t you? You now read your favourite author\u2019s finest works on a snazzy little e-reader on the train to work while I struggle to find enough elbow room to turn the old fashioned pages on my frankly quaint little collection of paper pages. Well, now you can find a foreign language book and study while doing this. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/portuguese\/london\/\">To better learn Portuguese London commuters could read an electronic book<\/a> while they enjoy the pleasures of the Tube. 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