How to Say Friend in French
“Ami” is the most common word for friend in French. But there are other words to say friend, with different levels of formality. Learn all about it in this article.
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Defining fluency in order to achieve fluency!
Continuing from my previous two posts about focussing on specifying your motivations and minigoals, it’s important to have a clear idea of the end-goal. i.e. FLUENCY (for many people). You will find this hard to achieve if you don’t know what you are aiming for, so today I am going to attempt to define this […]
Mini-goals are the path to achieving fluency
I am continuing from yesterday’s post about how Redefining your Motivation can give you new things to aim for in the long-run; by going a step further and looking entirely at the short term. When we think of goals, we may think of something to work towards over a long period of time that you […]
Redefining your motivation
Why are you learning this language? We all have a good reason to learn a new language; discovering our roots, passion for travel, academic purposes, pure interest etc. Once again, I’ll start off my post with another frank and sweeping statement; these reasons are useless if you want to become fluent quickly. They are vague, […]
How to make the transition from typical English-speaking tourist to local language speaking expat
Greetings from Prague!! After arriving, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the new country and new language, but it’s never to early to get going in your target language 😉 When will I be ready to speak the language? This is an important question that a lot of people ask themselves. Surely if you don’t […]
Travel phrasebooks: a serious language learner’s best first book to study
Please note: this article was written in June 2009. Those who know me, are aware that I can actually take a lot with me on cheap flights, but I still have to decide what is and what isn’t coming with me for my next 6 months on the road! (Czech Republic, then likely somewhere in […]
Starting to learn a language with the right attitude
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and learning a language is quite a trip! If you put your first foot wrong, it may seriously slow you down.
Is it possible to become fluent in a language in 3 months?
Welcome to my new blog “Fluent in 3 months“! I’ve already been making videos over at my main multilingual site Around the World in 80 Mays for some time, and I will include some language learning videos there soon. I have, however, decided to create this new site specifically for discussing my best language learning […]
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