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Author - Emily Rae Sabo

Emily Rae Sabo

Linguist at Mango Languages

Emily Sabo (Ph.D., University of Michigan): A travel-hungry content creator with a Linguistics Ph.D. in bilingual language processing, Emily has studied 7 languages and loves getting to use them to connect with people around the world. When she’s not creating content for the Mango community, you can find her dancing, yoga-ing, or performing some good ole’ fashioned standup comedy.

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How Prosody Works?

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What is Pragmatics?

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How to create a student-driven classroom

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5 easy & fun ways to use spaced repetition

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8 Tips for Giving Better Corrective Feedback to our Language Learners

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What Every Language Teacher Should Know About the “Fluency Illusion”

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How to have less awkward conversations in your target language (5 tips for keeping a conversation going smoothly)

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What is the “Desirable Difficulty Principle?”(and 4 fun ways to integrate it in your language learning classroom!)

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5 Do’s & Don’t for cultivating a culturally diverse language learning class

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How to equitably accommodate individual learner needs in the language classroom (a practical teacher question ANSWERED!)

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How to make your language classroom optimally accessible for each of your learners (while also avoiding teacher burnout!)

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Why Formative Assessments are a teacher’s biggest secret power (+ 3 simple tips for using them in your language classroom!)

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How to help your language learners avoid the “Summer Slide”

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5 Ways for Language Learners to Get Better Corrective Feedback & Use It Effectively! (Tips for Language Learners!)

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What “Growth Mindset” has to do with language learning (feat. 4 teacher tips!)

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5 ways language learning is like hitting the gym

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What is the Spacing Effect? (and why you should be using it!)

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5 Easy Ways to Build your Language Learning “Muscle!”

Teaching Adventure
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6 Ways to Make Language Learning an Adventure for your Students!

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3 reasons why mastering pronunciation can be hard

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How to set good language learning goals

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What Every Language Learner Should Know About the “Fluency Illusion” (And 5 smart study strategies to avoid it!)

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What are the real-life benefits of being bilingual?

The Sound Systems of Language
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The Sound Systems of Language (let’s talk phonology!)

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What is Language? (let’s talk linguistics!)

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How speech sounds work (let’s talk phonetics!)

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5 Things You Should Know About Semantics

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How can teachers help students develop an intuition for target language grammar? (4 easy tips for acquiring a “feel” for grammar)

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What every language learner should now about dialects

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Why hearing your target language “in the wild” may be different than how you learned it (Part 3: dialectal diversity!)

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Why hearing your target language “in the wild” may be different than how you learned it (Part 2: sound blending!)

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How Morphology Works?

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Setting Good Goals

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4 Tips for Mastering Pronunciation (in any language!)

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Why hearing your target language “in the wild” may be different than how you learned it (Part 1: idiomatic expressions!)

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Tired of being stuck at “just conversational” in your target language?

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Not yet as fluent as you want to be?

How Sentences Work
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How sentences work

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The Building Blocks of Speech (how to use the IPA!)

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How speech sounds work (let’s talk phonetics!)

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What is Language? (let’s talk linguistics!)

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