A 5-Step Method to Improve Your Listening Skills
Let’s talk listening skills. Personally, I’ve always found listening to be the most difficult language learning skill. Maybe you feel the same way?
Category: Language Hacks
Foreign to Familiar: How to “Language Proof” Your Immediate Environment
Sometimes, when you’re surrounded by a new language it can overwhelm your capacity to pick up new things. It’s almost too much newness, and you just draw a line. Everything from the toothpaste to the billboards to the TV is filled by the unrecognizable. You end up looking at words and noting that you’ve seen […]
Conversation Exchange: How an Online Language Buddy Took Me from Fear of Speaking to Confident Conversations
How I found an online language buddy for a conversation exchange, so I went from feeling scared of speaking to having real conversations in a new language.
Is “Learning from Mistakes” Really a Thing? Here’s What the Science Says…
Talking about learning from mistakes... “Did I really just say that?” I asked myself as I was chatting to my future Italian mother-in-law over dinner.
16 Free Online Portuguese Language Classes
Learn Portuguese at no cost with these free online Portuguese language lessons. Includes audio and video lessons, as well as complete courses.
How to Find a Language Exchange Partner
Learn a language by speaking! What is a language exchange partner - and what’s the best way to find one? Plus what language exchanges can do for you.
Cultural Immersion: How Learning 20 Basic Phrases Transformed My Travel Experience
For ages I’ve recognised, at least in theory, that learning even just a small handful sentences in a new language can take you a long way on a holiday, and give you a unique experience of cultural immersion. I really enjoyed reading about Fluent in 3 Months founder Benny Lewis’s experience getting by with limited […]
Learning a Third Language: An In-Depth Guide
I know lots of people who speak their second language at a very good level, yet hesitate to jump into learning a third language. Here's how to do it right.
Nerves, Tears and a Breakthrough: 2 Weeks Without Speaking English [Mission Update]
What’s it really like giving up your mother tongue? If you’ve read my last update you’ll know that I gave up speaking English for 30 days to focus on only speaking German. My goal was to reach the B2 level by the time the Cologne Carnival came around. As I write this, I’m in the […]
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