How Aesop and Jean de la Fontaine help us learn new languages.

Anna-Olimpia Rosenblum has been writing her PhD with me, on a teaching tool she has developed, using animated retellings of Aesop s fables to help language-learners with vocabulary acquisition. The animation is lovely: a simple retelling, with vocabulary interspersed, which takes learners through well known stories such as La Cigale et la Fourmi (The grasshopper and Continue reading How Aesop and…