Comments on: How to make time if you are too busy

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:03:00 +0000

Very clever! Glad you found me via grammar girl! I met her in person, she’s really nice!

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:03:00 +0000

Very clever! Glad you found me via grammar girl! I met her in person, she’s really nice!

By: Benny the language hacker

Benny the language hacker — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:36:00 +0000

I’m afraid I can’t be of too much use on that, since I have not learned any Chinese yet. I’ve seen lots of interesting mnemonics online that I’ll definitely be using whenever I get to Chinese

By: Lazarusomega2000

Lazarusomega2000 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:55:00 +0000

Do you have any recommendations for learning a non-phonetic pictographic language such as Chinese? I had great difficulty with this language (and still do) because when you are conditioned to look at things phonetically it’s hard to break those kinds of thought-habits.

By: Ketutar

Ketutar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:25:03 +0000

“which here in Prague has actually mostly been in French and Portuguese”' Ajabaja, as they say in Sweden. Bad boy, bad, bad, bad!
It's not only English you need to stop talking, it's EVERY LANGUAGE THAT IS NOT THE ONE YOU ARE TRYING TO LEARN! Sure, it was your birthday, and all that, but what's the darn difference in speaking in French with your French-speaking friends and speaking in English with your English-speaking friends, when you are actually trying to learn Czech and should be speaking Czech with your Czech-speaking friends?
No wonder you found a new way of not learning to speak a new language fluently in three months. Or, let's say, you proved that the old way of not learning a new language is still strong and valid

By: GlobalButterfly

GlobalButterfly — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:35:10 +0000

I've uploaded language podcasts to my itouch and listen to them every chance I get, helps a lot!

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Cheap & Useful Resources for Learning Spanish — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:03:21 +0000

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By: Georgina

Georgina — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:59:06 +0000

Hola. He estado leyendo varios de tus posts y pienso que están llenos de cosas útiles para gente como yo que quiere aprender muchos idiomas. Yo ya me había dado cuenta de que perdemos mucho tiempo en las filas y ese tipo de cosas, pero lo que hago es leer libros. Lo malo es que como son periodos de tiempo muy cortos, se lee una línea que se entiende a la mitad y no funciona. Pero las ideas que escribiste son geniales. Las fotocopias no pesan, no estorban… son perfectas. Muchas gracias y muchas felicidades por tu blog. Tienes una lectora más. Saludos desde México.

By: Georgina

Georgina — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:59:00 +0000

By: Vessen

Vessen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:23:20 +0000

Hello Benny. I came across your blog a few weeks a ago and I’ve really been enjoying it since becoming a polyglot has been one of my goals for a while now. This post is the one I’ve found most useful.
Last summer when I went to an amusement park with some friends I brought along a list of the words I was studying in Arabic. I figured that if the line was an hour long for each roller coaster I could get more studying time in than I normally do in a day, although my friends thought it was a little strange.
A way I have used to get more time are to see what tasks I can do in the language I’m learning. If I ever have to write anything that no one else will read I write it in French.

By: Vessen

Vessen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:23:00 +0000

By: benny

benny — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:32:25 +0000

Sorry no-one has responded yet Rene. If you install itunes you can subscribe to several stations that are in Czech (in downloading them you can listen to them even if you don't have an iPod). Otherwise if you do a search for Czech news podcast, and you'll see a few options! Best of luck!!

By: benny

benny — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:32:00 +0000

By: Rene

Rene — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:30:12 +0000

Can anyone post a link to some website where I can get a summary of the news in Czech in MP3 format?

Thanks!

By: Rene

Rene — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Can anyone post a link to some website where I can get a summary of the news in Czech in MP3 format?

Thanks!

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:35 +0000

Nice post SplogSplog. Can you give us the link where we can find Czech weekly news highlights in MP3 format, as well as their bilingual transcripts?

Thanks,
Rene – a polyglot from Florida, USA

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:00 +0000

Nice post SplogSplog. Can you give us the link where we can find Czech weekly news highlights in MP3 format, as well as their bilingual transcripts?

Thanks,
Rene – a polyglot from Florida, USA

By: benny

benny — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:03:55 +0000

I haven’t taken a bus in Prague since I got here, so that definitely wasn’t me I’m only ever on trams and metros and if I don’t have a phrasebook and I look like I’m starting into space, I’m actually trying to translate the public transport’s advertisements
Keep looking! I warn you; distinguishing me from all the other foreigners in Prague with Lonely Planet phrasebooks in their hands will be quite hard

By: benny

benny — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:03:00 +0000

By: benny

benny — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:01:20 +0000

Yep, this time-squeezing does involve a little bit of obsessive-compulsiveness It depends on how motivated you are; for this 3 month period I prefer to be studying in free minutes than staring into space. After this my next 3-month project will allow me to relax somewhat
Thanks for the good wishes; IJK in Liberec was fantastic, I’ll be posting a video about it soon!