Category: Language Hacks

How to Break Through the Intermediate Spanish Plateau

written by Olly Richards

If your intermediate Spanish feels stuck, diagnose the gap and use listening, speaking, reading and feedback to start progressing again.

A 5-Step Method to Improve Your Listening Skills

written by James Granahan

Use a five-step listening practice with short audio, a transcript and repetition to improve comprehension, notice connected speech and track progress.

Foreign to Familiar: How to “Language Proof” Your Immediate Environment

written by Dawn Field

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 with the unfamiliar. 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

written by Marie Ryan

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…

written by Katie Harris

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.