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Happy New Year in AFRIKAANS

gelukkige nuwejaar

Happy New Year in ALBANIAN

Gëzuar vitin e ri

Happy New Year in ALSATIAN

e glëckliches nëies

Happy New Year in ARABIC

عام سعيد (aam saiid)

Happy New Year in ARMENIAN

shnorhavor nor tari

Happy New Year in AZERI

yeni iliniz mubarek

Happy New Year in BAMBARA

aw ni san’kura

Happy New Year in BASQUE

urte berri on

Happy New Year in BELARUSIAN

З новым годам (Z novym hodam)

Happy New Year in BENGALI

subho nababarsho

Happy New Year in BERBER

asgwas amegas

Happy New Year in BETI

mbembe mbu

Happy New Year in BOBO

bonne année

Happy New Year in BOSNIAN

sretna nova godina

Happy New Year in BRETON

bloavezh mat

Happy New Year in BULGARIAN

честита нова година

chestita nova godina

Happy New Year in BURMESE

Hnit thit ku mingalar pa

Happy New Year in CANTONESE

sun lin fi lok

Happy New Year in CATALAN

bon any nou

Happy New Year in CHINESE

xīn nián kuài lè

Happy New Year in CORSICAN

pace e salute

Happy New Year in CROATIAN

sretna nova godina

Happy New Year in CZECH

šťastný nový rok

Happy New Year in DANISH

godt nytår

Happy New Year in DARI

sale naw tabrik

Happy New Year in DUTCH

gelukkig Nieuwjaar

Happy New Year in ENGLISH

Happy new year

Happy New Year in ESPERANTO

felicxan novan jaron

Happy New Year in ESTONIAN

Head uut aastat

Happy New Year in EWE

eƒé bé dzogbenyui nami

Happy New Year in FAROESE

gott nýggjár

Happy New Year in FARSI

Aide shoma mobarak

Happy New Year in FINNISH

onnellista uutta vuotta

Happy New Year in FLEMISH

gelukkig Nieuwjaar

Happy New Year in FRENCH

bonne année

Happy New Year in FRISIAN

lokkich neijier

Happy New Year in FRIULAN

bon an

Happy New Year in GALICIAN

feliz aninovo

Happy New Year in GEORGIAN

გილოცავთ ახალ წელს

gilocavt akhal tsels

Happy New Year in GERMAN

ein gutes neues Jahr

Happy New Year in GREEK

kali chronia

Happy New Year in GUJARATI

sal mubarak

Happy New Year in GUARANÍ

rogüerohory año nuévo-re

Happy New Year in HAITIAN CREOLE

bònn ané

Happy New Year in HAWAIIAN

Hauoli makahiki hou

Happy New Year in HEBREW

שנה טובה

shana tova

Happy New Year in HINDI

nav varsh ki subhkamna

Happy New Year in HMONG

nyob zoo xyoo tshiab

Happy New Year in HUNGARIAN

boldog új évet

Happy New Year in ICELANDIC

farsælt komandi ár

Happy New Year in INDONESIAN

selamat tahun baru

Happy New Year in IRISH GAELIC

ath bhliain faoi mhaise

Happy New Year in ITALIAN

Buon Capo d’Anno

Happy New Year in JAVANESE

sugeng warsa enggal

Happy New Year in JAPANESE

akemashite omedetô gozaimasu

Happy New Year in KABYLIAN

asseggas ameggaz

Happy New Year in KANNADA

Hosa varshada shubhaashayagalu

Happy New Year in KAZAKH

zhana zhiliniz kutti bolsin

Happy New Year in KHMER

sur sdei chhnam thmei

Happy New Year in KINYARWANDA

umwaka mwiza

Happy New Year in KIRUNDI

umwaka mwiza

Happy New Year in KOREAN

seh heh bok mani bat uh seyo

Happy New Year in KURDE

sala we ya nû pîroz be

Happy New Year in LAO

sabai di pi mai

Happy New Year in LATIN

felix sit annus novus

Happy New Year in LATVIAN

laimīgu Jauno gadu

Happy New Year in LIGURIAN

feliçe annu nœvu

Happy New Year in LINGALA

mbula ya sika elamu na tonbeli yo

Happy New Year in LITHUANIAN

laimingų Naujųjų Metų

Happy New Year in LOW SAXON

gelükkig nyjaar

Happy New Year in LUXEMBOURGEOIS

e gudd neit Joër

Happy New Year in MACEDONIAN

Среќна Нова Година

srekna nova godina

Happy New Year in MALAGASY

arahaba tratry ny taona

Happy New Year in MALAY

selamat tahun baru

Happy New Year in MALAYALAM

nava varsha ashamshagal

Happy New Year in MALTESE

is-sena t-tajba

Happy New Year in MANGAREVAN

kia porotu te ano ou

Happy New Year in MAORI

kia hari te tau hou

Happy New Year in MARATHI

navin varshaachya hardik shubbheccha

Happy New Year in MONGOLIAN

shine jiliin bayariin mend hurgeye

Happy New Year in MORÉ

wênd na kô-d yuum-songo

Happy New Year in NDEBELE

umyaka omucha omuhle

Happy New Year in NORWEGIAN

godt nyttår

Happy New Year in OCCITAN

bon annada

Happy New Year in PASHTO

nawe kaalmo mobarak sha

Happy New Year in PERSIAN

سال نو مبارک

sâle no mobârak

Happy New Year in POLISH

szczęśliwego nowego roku

Happy New Year in PORTUGUESE

feliz ano novo

Happy New Year in PUNJABI

ਨਵੇਂ ਸਾਲ ਦੀਆਂ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ

nave saal deeyan vadhaiyaan

Happy New Year in ROMANCHE

bun di bun onn

Happy New Year in ROMANI

baxtalo nevo bersh

Happy New Year in ROMANIAN

un an nou fericit

Happy New Year in RUSSIAN

С Новым Годом

Happy New Year in SAMOAN

ia manuia le tausaga fou

Happy New Year in SANGO

nzoni fini ngou

Happy New Year in SARDINIAN

bonu annu nou

Happy New Year in SCOTTISH GAELIC

bliadhna mhath ur

Happy New Year in SERBIAN

srećna nova godina

Срећна нова година

Happy New Year in SHIMAORE

mwaha mwema

Happy New Year in SHONA

goredzva rakanaka

Happy New Year in SINDHI

nain saal joon wadhayoon

Happy New Year in SINHALA

suba aluth avuruddak vewa

Happy New Year in SLOVAK

šťastný nový rok

Happy New Year in SLOVENIAN

srečno novo leto

Happy New Year in SOBOTA

dobir leto

Happy New Year in SOMALI

sanad wanagsan

Happy New Year in SPANISH

feliz año nuevo

Happy New Year in SRANAN

wan bun nyun yari

Happy New Year in SUDANESE

Wilujeng Tahun Baru

Happy New Year in SWAHILI

mwaka mzuri

Happy New Year in SWEDISH

gott nytt år

Happy New Year in SWISS-GERMAN

es guets Nöis

Happy New Year in TAGALOG

manigong bagong taon

Happy New Year in TAHITIAN

ia orana i te matahiti api

Happy New Year in TAMAZIGHT

assugas amegaz

Happy New Year in TAMIL

iniya puthandu nalVazhthukkal

Happy New Year in TATAR

yaña yıl belän

Happy New Year in TELUGU

నూతన సంవత్శర శుభాకాంక్షలు

nuthana samvathsara subhakankshalu

Happy New Year in THAI

สวัสดีปีใหม่

sawatdii pimaï

Happy New Year in TIBETAN

tashi delek

Happy New Year in TSHILUBA

tshidimu tshilenga

Happy New Year in TULU

posa varshada shubashaya

Happy New Year in TURKISH

yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun

Happy New Year in TWENTS

gluk in’n tuk

Happy New Year in UDMURT

Vyľ Aren

Happy New Year in UKRAINIAN

Z novym rokom

Happy New Year in URDU

naya saal mubarik

Happy New Year in UZBEK

yangi yilingiz qutlug’ bo’lsin

Happy New Year in VIETNAMESE

Chúc Mừng Nǎm Mới

Happy New Year in WALOON

bone annéye

Happy New Year in WELSH

blwyddyn newydd dda

Happy New Year in WEST INDIAN CREOLE

bon lanné

Happy New Year in WOLOF

dewenati

Happy New Year in YIDDISH

a gut yohr

Posted under Society

Introduction to Astrology | Learn English | Astrology

Life is uncertain. All of us would like to feel that there is a plan set out for us. Astrology has fascinated people for centuries because it claims to be able to provide us with a glimpse of this plan of our lives. Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as superstition, but many people still believe in the claims of astrologers. People consult their daily horoscope in the newspapers. Romances are decided on the matching of star signs. Some people plan their lives around their horoscope. This lesson provides you with some of the English vocabulary you need if you want to debate the truth of astrology. It lays the foundation for the next twelve lessons that look at each of the signs of the Zodiac in great detail. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.

Posted under Writing

Yesterday we passed the one thousandth subscriber mark at YouTube.

That is an important milestone in the development of Linguaspectrum. The ultimate aim, of course, is as many subscribers as it’s possible to get. One thousand is good for now, but this time next year we need to be looking at ten thousand subscribers if we are to get the visitor numbers to the site and the viewer numbers for the videos that we are aiming for.

It has taken four months to reach this figure. Though the Linguaspectrum YouTube channel has been on YouTube since April 2009, it was only at the end of July that I posted my first video effort. In retrospect, this first video is rather dire in comparison with the videos that I am producing now. Though it is had over four thousand views, it is now lagging a long way behind the recent viewing figures of the newer, more polished videos.

My video production throughout August was rather slow as I was struggling to find the right software combination with which to produce the videos. By September I had the software decided upon and by October was beginning to become proficient in the use thereof. November saw my most ambitious projects put online, and in December I have been developing the series approach to videos. This seems to be the best way to produce English language learning videos, as it allows the students to pick and choose those videos that they prefer that make up the series. I am currently finishing off a series of five Christmas videos that have been very well received by my visitors and subscribers.

Though it took four months to reach the thousand subscriber mark, the fact that we now have fifty-three videos online, along with the extra learning materials that go with them at Linguaspectrum.com, the growth in the number of subscribers is steadily increasing. I anticipate that it will take a good deal less than four months to reach the two thousand subscriber mark. I would think that within two months we should achieve this target. Hopefully it will take just another month to add another thousand, and as we add more videos the time to add a thousand subscribers to the channel should quickly decrease.

Some of the other online English teachers have been online for 2 to 3 years and have accumulated as many as twenty-three thousand subscribers to their channels. I anticipate reaching this figure long before three years have passed. Visitor numbers to Linguaspectrum.com have also increased dramatically over the past month since we won our YouTube partnership.

The YouTube partnership was the first major milestone that we had to reach. Having reached it, I now anticipate that the growth of Linguaspectrum will become exponential. Add to the fact of the partnership the increasing sophistication of my videos and a huge reduction in time needed to produce each video, now that I am perfecting a suitable workflow, and we should be attracting many tens of thousands of visitors each week.

The number of video views is now just short of one hundred thousand. The number of channel views that YouTube is now well over fifteen thousand. I anticipate a million video views within the next six months.

Posted under Teaching, Technology

In the last few hours I have risen even higher among the partners in Spain.

Linguaspectrum is now 8th!

Still a long way to go before we beat the top 6. They are all 1300 to 3300 views more than me!

I give it six months before Linguaspectrum is Number One.

Posted under Teaching, Technology

How do you go from an obscure YouTube channel to being number one in only four months? Not only do I know the secret, but I’ve also done it. Here is the proof. A screen shot taken this morning just after midnight.

Yes, I know it’s not number one of all of YouTube, but it’s number one in all the Gurus of Spain, of which I am one.

What is a Guru? It’s one of the categories that you can choose to present yourself in on YouTube, and was the only one that really fitted what I’m doing. My dictionary defines Guru as, A recognized leader in some field or of some movement, which I guess makes me the recognised leader in the field of Spanish Gurus, and in particular online English teaching.

There was a second screen shot I took when I saw that I was number 15 most viewed today. I was going to post that too, until I just discovered that I have moved up to number 11. Let me show you the new screen shot.

For me this is all very impressive. This shows that I am not just number one in the Guru niche, but I am number 11 in all of the Partner channels on YouTube in Spain. I’m well above any other online teaching channel, and even above some very popular channels like Warner Music. All in all it vindicates the teaching method that  I have been developing.

My goal, of course, is to be number one in the most viewed and most subscribed in all departments. I think this will take a few more months to achieve.

My success has made me consider creating a course on Online Teaching for other teachers who would like to teach online. It would not be a theory-based course where you get a worthless certificate after paying a substantial sum of money to a teacher training organisation whose main aim is to turn a profit. It would be a hands-on, practical course where I would share my experiences with you.

The course would stop you making the same mistakes as I have made over the past three years. My early Linguaspectrum web pages were dire, to say the least, as were my first attempts to create YouTube videos. However, I’m a fast learner, and a good teacher, and would ensure that you could get up to my level of knowledge and success in a fraction of the time.

I envisage in-depth modules on Internet awareness, website design, YouTube promotion, available software, design, video creation, flash, and other areas of technology that any teacher who wants to start setting trends in online teaching must be aware of and be proficient in. I would show you how to, and how not to, create an automatic website that will act as your secretary. I’d even consider giving my scripts away as part of the package, and could even provide teachers with a fully-functioning, fully-personalised website.

If you would be interested in such a course please let me know. If there is sufficient interest from teachers, I’ll create the course and have you teaching online and making money from it asap.

As for me, I have to get back to creating my next video – appropriately enough about Christmas.

Please visit my website and YouTube channel to see why I’ve becoming as successful as I am so quickly.

Posted under Teaching, Technology