{"id":1866,"date":"2009-11-09T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2009-11-09T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T18:30:37","slug":"a-different-kind-of-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/life\/drink+fluent\/2200668\/story.html\">language school in Montreal<\/a> has come up with an interesting way to teach languages &#8211; the students get together in local restaurants where the language they&#8217;re studying is spoken. This enables the students to learn languages, and about cultures and cuisines, in a relaxed environment where they can actually use what they&#8217;re learning. They also get discount on their restaurant bills, and the restaurants get some free advertising, as well as extra business.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know of any similar initiatives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A language school in Montreal has come up with an interesting way to teach languages &#8211; the students get together in local restaurants where the language they&#8217;re studying is spoken. This enables the students to learn languages, and about cultures and cuisines, in a relaxed environment where they can actually use what they&#8217;re learning. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}