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Category: Language Hacks
How to Become a Polyglot and Maintain Multiple Languages
Learn how to become a polyglot with clear language goals, a focused study plan and realistic routines for maintaining what you learn.
Getting rid of your English accent when speaking a foreign language
Use focused listening, sound comparisons, recording and feedback to improve pronunciation without trying to erase every trace of your first language.
How I Learned to Speak Czech in Two Months (2009 Case Study)
In 2009, I spent two intensive months learning Czech. Here’s what helped, what I’d change and why the result isn’t a universal promise.
Hitting a brick wall in your language progress
If your language progress has stalled, diagnose the cause, change your routine and choose a focused challenge that gets you moving again.
Do you need to be rich to travel the world?
Benny explains how ordinary jobs, careful spending and flexible travel choices funded his years abroad without family wealth or a lottery win.
Couchsurfing: How to practise with a native without even needing to leave your home
Use Couchsurfing to meet native speakers and practise a language locally, even when you cannot travel to a country where it is spoken.
Does drinking help you speak a foreign language?
Benny compares research on alcohol and second-language speech with his sober Prague experience, then offers safer ways to build confidence.
Combining learning languages with your hobbies: My first video in Czech!
See how Benny combined a Czech speaking challenge with video-making, and learn why your existing hobbies can make language practice more useful.
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