tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66800410033903458862024-03-18T02:18:27.205-07:00The Paul Noble Language InstituteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680041003390345886.post-52039593383486921562014-06-04T06:10:00.001-07:002014-06-05T03:14:01.902-07:00The Paul Noble Language Institute London: Testimonials, Feedback and Reviews<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Paul Noble Language Institute has received a great many positive reviews over the years. Here are just a few of of them:</h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"These courses are simply fantastic!"</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Paul Noble has developed a system that allows
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Why not try out a Paul Noble Language Course today, either at <a href="http://www.paulnoblelanguages.com/">our language centre</a> or with one of our <a href="http://www.paulnoblelanguages.com/Collins_French_with_Paul_Noble_Spanish_Italian/">CD courses</a> published by Collins. </h3>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">How would you like it if someone
called you “my little lump of sugar”? And what would you think if, in a
romantic voice, someone said to you: “diving fish, swooping geese”?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Well,
depending on where you were in the world, you might just hear some of these
very things! Terms of endearment vary hugely from country to country – so,
whereas in one place you might be compared to a type of vegetable, in another
you’ll probably be compared to a type of bird. And though in some instances
romantic expressions come from ancient stories, in others they’re used simply
because a certain something tastes nice! So, here are just some of the things
you can expect to hear if you fall in love with someone whilst abroad:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In France, if someone falls in love with you they might choose to call you "<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">mon petit chou</span></b>”, “<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">my little
cabbage</span></b>” or, alternatively, they could refer to you as “<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">ma puce</span></b>”, meaning “<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">my
flea</span></b>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Spanish,
by contrast, display a sweeter tooth and will sometimes call the one they love
their “<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">terrón de azúcar</span></b>”, their “<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">lump of sugar</span></b>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In Portugal,
however, they’ll refer to their beloved as something that they absolutely
cannot not live without - “<b><span style="color: #38761d;">meu coração</span></b>”, “<b><span style="color: #38761d;">my heart</span></b>”. Whilst in their former
colony of Brazil, people will use “<b><span style="color: #38761d;">chuchuzinho</span></b>” to express affection, which
means something like “<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>my little pumpkin</b></span>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In Germany
it’s quite different again. There, they’ll choose to elevate you to the heavens
and call you their “<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Englein</span></b>”, or “<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">little angel</span></b>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Italians, on
the other hand, will demonstrate how truly rich they are to have you, naming
you “<span style="color: #93c47d;"><b>tesoro mio</b></span>”, “<b><span style="color: #93c47d;">my treasure</span></b>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In Russia
though they will once more look up to the heavens for inspiration, calling you
“<b>golubchik</b>" (голубчик) if you are a man, or “<b>golubushka</b>” (голубушка) if
you are a woman, both meaning “<b>little dove</b>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Of course,
you could end up falling in love with someone from a far more distant foreign
land and, in that case, you should be prepared for everything to get </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">significantly</i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> more exotic! For instance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In Japan, a
man will tell a woman he is in love with that she has “<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">tamago gata no kao</span></b>” </span><span style="font-family: MingLiU;">(<span lang="EN-US">卵形の顔</span>)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">: “<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a face shaped like an egg</b></span>”. This
is a great compliment in Japan, where having an oval (egg-shaped) face is
considered very attractive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In Arabic, on the other hand, a
beloved and beautiful woman can be described as “<b><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">yoon al ghrazaali</span></b>” </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(لك</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">عيون</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">الغزال)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">,
“<b><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">having eyes like a gazelle</span></b>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">By contrast, the people of Thailand prefer
to choose a quite different animal with which to compare their sweethearts,
calling them “<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">cháang nóoy</span></b>” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: 'Cordia New', sans-serif;">ช้างน้อย</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'Cordia New', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">or “<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">little elephant</span></b>” – suggesting perhaps that they
prefer their partners with a bit of meat on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And whilst in India people will
describe the woman they love as being “<b><span style="color: #76a5af;">mere dil ki rani</span></b>” (</span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">मेरे</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">दिल</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">की</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Mangal, serif;">रानी</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">),
“<b><span style="color: #76a5af;">the queen of my heart</span></b>”, Indonesians will choose something a touch juicer,
naming their beloveds “<b><span style="color: #e69138;">buah hatiku</span></b>”, “<b><span style="color: #e69138;">the <i>fruit</i> of my heart</span></b>”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">But it is undoubtedly the Chinese
who must take the prize for the most dramatic and interesting of romantic
endearments. They win first place based on the story surrounding the greatest
beauty in Chinese history, a woman named Xi Shi. It’s said that Xi Shi was so
profoundly beautiful that when she looked at fish in a pond, the fish were so
dazzled by her beauty that they forgot to swim and gradually sank deeper and
deeper down, until eventually they had dived all the way to the bottom.
Likewise, it was said that when geese flew overhead, they were so struck by her
beauty that they would forget to flap their wings and so would end up swooping
to the ground. Because of this, to this day, when a young Chinese man is in
love with a Chinese woman, he may wish to tell her that, to him, she is as
beautiful as Xi Shi. To do this, he will use just four words: “<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">chén yú luò yàn</span></b>”
</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU, serif;">(</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: PMingLiU, serif;">沈魚落雁</span><span style="font-family: PMingLiU, serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">, which simply mean “<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">diving fish,
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The Paul Noble Language Institute is planning to launch a project to create a range of courses that will teach some of the more neglected Germanic languages.</div>
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To this end, we are looking for speakers of these languages who would be interested in creating published courses together with us.</div>
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The courses will essentially be audio-based, although a supporting booklet will also be included with them. </div>
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Languages currently penned for inclusion within the first wave of the project include: Afrikaans, Icelandic and Yiddish. A second wave is also provisionally planned, with details to follow later.</div>
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For each language, we aim to produce a 13-hour course that will cover cover key grammar and a functional vocabulary for each language. </div>
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All distribution costs for the project will be borne by The Paul Noble Language Institute. Any net profits for each course produced will go to the course author.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is a long-term project</span></div>
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This announcement on our Blog is the first step of several that are intended to lead to the creation of these new courses. We are currently looking essentially for an expression of interest on the part of those who may wish to author one of these Germanic language courses. This is a long-term project and anyone interested in participating will need to have this in mind from the outset.</div>
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To author one of these courses, you will need to be either a native speaker of one of these languages or at approximately Level C2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Please note that we will not favour native speakers over non-native proficient speakers of the language when selecting our authors, as non-native speakers will use native speaker co-teachers during the recordings. </div>
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- have some teaching, tuition or training experience (this need not be extensive and does not necessarily need to have involved teaching languages as such - we are <b><u>not</u></b> looking for a standard language teacher - in fact, if you taught somewhere only briefly but felt dissatisfied with the results, you may be just who we are looking for!)</div>
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Should you fit this criteria and come to author a course with us, you will be given guidance on how to put your course together. How you apply this guidance will be your decision to make but the course will have to pass our strict quality control guidelines. This process may take as much as a year to complete and will include a significant number of test run sessions, for which you will require students. Our standards are extremely high and we will work with you to make sure that each course works precisely as it is intended to.</div>
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If you feel that you meet the requirements laid out above, please email us an expression of interest at germaniclanguageproject@paulnoblelanguages.com, making sure to include in the email:</div>
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- Which language it is you wish to teach.</div>
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- Which other languages you speak or are studying.</div>
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- A paragraph describing what it is that you feel makes a good self-study language course.<br />
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<b>Please note: <u>All</u> details relating to the project are subject to change or cancellation, without notice or liability. Being short-listed as a candidate, or invited for interview, does not guarantee you will be accepted as a course author or Paul Noble Language Institute employee.</b></div>
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The Paul Noble Language Institute is planning to launch a project to help increase the number of speakers of Celtic languages within the UK, Ireland and the wider world.</div>
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To this end, we are looking for speakers of Celtic languages who would be interested in creating published courses for Celtic languages together with us, with the intention being that these courses will be available not only for commercial sale but that they will also be gradually adopted by schools within the UK and Ireland.</div>
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The courses will essentially be audio-based, although a supporting booklet will also be included with them.</div>
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Languages currently penned for inclusion within the intended first wave of the project include: Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh. A second wave is also intended, which will include Manx and Cornish.</div>
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For each language, we aim to produce a 13-hour course that will cover key grammar and a functional vocabulary for each language. </div>
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All distribution costs for the project will be borne by The Paul Noble Language Institute. Any net profits for each course produced will go to the course author.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is a long-term project</span><br />
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This announcement on our Blog is the first step of several that are intended to lead to the creation of these new courses. We are currently looking essentially for an expression of interest on the part of those who may wish to author one of these Celtic language courses. This is a long-term project and anyone interested in participating will need to have this in mind from the outset.</div>
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To author one of these courses, you will need to be either a native speaker of one of these languages or at approximately Level C2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Please note that we will not favour native speakers over non-native proficient speakers of the language when selecting our authors, as non-native speakers will use native speaker co-teachers during the recordings. </div>
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What concerns us far more is that the author should:<br />
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- have a general interest in learning languages.</div>
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- have studied more than one foreign language - and ideally more than three (if only to a moderate level).</div>
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- be interested in innovative styles of teaching.</div>
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- have some teaching, tuition or training experience (this need not be extensive and does not necessarily need to have involved teaching languages as such - we are <b><u>not</u></b> looking for a standard language teacher - in fact, if you taught somewhere only briefly but felt dissatisfied with the results, you may be just who we are looking for!)</div>
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Should you fit this criteria and come to author a course with us, you will be given guidance on how to put your course together. How you apply this guidance will be your decision to make but the course will have to pass our strict quality control guidelines. This process may take as much as a year to complete and will include a significant number of test run sessions, for which you will require students. Our standards are extremely high and we will work with you to make sure that each course works precisely as it is intended to.</div>
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Finally, having written the course, you will be required to carry out the teaching on the audio-course itself.</div>
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If you feel that you meet the requirements laid out above, please email us an expression of interest at celticlanguageproject@paulnoblelanguages.com, making sure to include in the email:</div>
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- Which language it is you wish to teach.<br />
- Which other languages you speak or are studying.<br />
- A paragraph describing what it is that you feel makes a good self-study language course.<br />
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Never learned a language before? Wondered if you would be any good at it? </div>
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Then why not try our language aptitude test below!<br />
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It consists of ten questions and should take you around ten minutes to complete. It is designed for anyone who does not yet speak a foreign language fluently and will help give you an idea of just how naturally you may take to learning your first foreign language. (<b>Make sure to note down your answers</b> - the answer key and scoring are at the bottom of the test).</div>
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<b>Question One. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">How often will you get the chance to use the language you are hoping to learn?</span></b></div>
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a) Almost never.<br />
b) Perhaps once a year, when I'm on holiday / vacation.<br />
c) All the time (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">My partner speaks the language / I need it for business / I own a second home in that country etc</span>).<br />
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<b>Question Two. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">How many of the following English words do you know the meaning of?</span> </b></div>
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a) tardy b) altruistic c) egregious d) perfidy e) squaliform<br />
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<b>Question Three.</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>How many of these <i>foreign</i> words can you guess the meaning of?</b></span></div>
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a) patriótico b) Intelligenz c) précieux d) enthusiastisch e) gestikulieren<br />
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<b>Question Four</b>. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Take a look at the following foreign language sentence and its translation:</span></b></div>
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Foreign language sentence: Ho preparato il caffè per Lei.<br />
Translation: I have prepared the coffee for you.<br />
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a) per Lei b) una c) torta d) decorato e) Ho<br />
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<b>Question Five</b>. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Can you work out what the new sentence you have just created (using the words above) means?</span></b></div>
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a) He has bought a new pair of shoes for you.<br />
b) I have two brothers and sisters.<br />
c) I have decorated a cake for you.<br />
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<b>Question Six</b>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>Translate the names of the following works, written by a famous playwright, into English.</b></span></div>
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a)<b> </b>Hamlet, Prinz von Denmark.<br />
b) König Lear.<br />
c) Ende gut, alles gut.<br />
d) Ein Mittsommernachtstraum.<br />
e) Die Komödie der Irrungen.<br />
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<b><span style="color: black;">Question Eight</span></b><span style="color: black;">. </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Take a look at these five Dutch proverbs. What would the equivalent for each proverb be in English? </span></b><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">a) Bloed is dicker dan water.</span><br />
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<b>Question Nine</b>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b>For each of the five English words below, select the Chinese character with the same meaning.</b></span></div>
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<b>a)</b> <b>mouth </b><b>b) child </b><b>c) horse </b><b>d) mountain </b><b>e) paddy field</b></div>
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b) Intelligenz = intelligence</div>
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c) précieux = precious</div>
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<b>Question Six</b> - give yourself <b>1 point</b> for each of Shakespeare's plays that you correctly translated:</div>
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Very good. Your current level of aptitude is typical for someone setting out to learn their first foreign language. Take a look at where you did less well on the test; this will show you what you need to work on to make learning your first foreign language that much easier. It will also help you decide what sort of language course will help you most with your studies.</div>
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Excellent. You have an extensive English vocabulary, plus an ability to see links between English and other languages when they exist. These factors will make language learning far easier, so long as you find a course that utilises these abilities. If you are motivated and did well on question one to boot, you are likely to go far. Well done!</div>
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Questions three, six, seven, eight, nine and ten were designed to test your ability to reason logically in terms of analysing foreign language, foreign language symbols and foreign language vocabulary; in doing so it measured another aspect of verbal ability.</div>
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Questions four and five were designed to test your ability to infer a set of rules from a given extract of a foreign language and then to apply these in a different context.</div>
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