BGE at EHP

When discussing the idea of a European municipal project on the connotations of words, contacts of the Europäisches Haus Pappenheim showed much interest in the concept of Basic Global English. It seems that among the “middle” and “elder” generation, English is much less known that the EHP had expected. Therefore, an additional preparatory phase has now been implemented in the project plan.

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Eurolinguistic Clip on Politeness

If you are familiar with German, you might be interested in my latest Eurolinguistic clip, this time I’m talking about politeness strategies.  It is meant to be an appetizer for my book Europas Sprachen und Kulturen im Wandel der Zeit.

If you are also interested in my earlier Eurolinguistic clips, just insert „Eurolinguistischer Clip“ into YouTube’s search line.

 

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International Mother Language Day

Today is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day. If you are familiar with German, see the contribution on my German blog.

 

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New book on European languages and cultures

If you are familiar with German, you may be interested in my latest book Europas Sprachen und Kulturen im Wandel der Zeit, available at amazon.de.

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Introduction to Linguistics by Joachim Grzega

My materials for the introduction to linguistics have now been published as a book at LINCOM. If students order it directly at LINCOM, they will get it at a special discount clearly below the prices for other introductions of smaller size.  The book’s full title is Introduction to Linguistics from a Global Perspective: An Alternative Approach to Language and Languages. It is based on a 10-plus-year-long teaching experience. 10 chapters

Handbook of Eurolinguistics published!

Uwe Hinrichs‘ encyclopedic Handbuch der Eurolinguistik has now been published. It also includes two articles by myself: one on Global English (including BGE), the other on communicative strategies in European languages.

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Eurolinguistic Clip #2

The second Eurolinguistic clip is online:

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BGE for self-teaching and for adult learner groups

The next milestone of the BGE project is reached: Both the German accompanying material for the self-teaching book Welcome to the World! and the German adult-group handbook Welcome, Global Players! are now among ASEcoLi’s products.

Linguistic Edutainment: Foreignish for Freshmen

Always in search for new ways of disseminating linguistic knowledge, I tried out a new one last Thursday: linguistic edutainment. I combined lecturing, audience participation (through quizzes) and music for a performance „Ausländisch für Anfänger“ („Foreignish for Freshmen“) at the Volkshochschule Weißenburg. It seemed to have worked as shown by the report in the local newspaper here.

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Upcoming events

My first events at the Akademie Schönbühl are set:

2 April:

introduction to Basic Global English for a general public

15 May:

1. introduction to Basic Global English for compulsory school teachers

2. introduction to Lernen durch Lehren (LdL) (for teachers)

3. how can we use Wikipedia and its sister projects) (for students, teachers, parents and everyone)

19 June:

1. what does user-friendly language look like? (for business people and administration people)

2. how do I learn effectively and efficiently? (for students, teachers, parents and everyone)

3. edutainment on communicative behaviour around the world (for everyone)

I’m also eagerly working on my edutainment lecture “Ausländisch für Anfänger” that I will give to a general audience next week.

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