Culture Hacking: The Real Secret to Mastering a Language
Culture hacking is the best way to take your language learning from intermediate to mastery.
Culture hacking is the best way to take your language learning from intermediate to mastery.
Use comparison, humour, circumlocution, memory aids and revision as creative exercises inside your language-learning routine.
Evgenia Kashaeva shares the schedule she used to study five languages in one year, plus a practical 12-week plan for choosing what to learn next.
Use five practical reading methods to build vocabulary and comprehension: selective dictionary use, parallel texts, comics, audiobooks and graded readers.
Just how difficult is Vietnamese? Pretty much impossible, if you ask the locals. We've got a different view.
Learn how tonal languages use pitch, why “tone deaf” does not mean incapable, and how to train tones with contrasts, imitation and feedback.
Set language goals that stretch you without becoming empty promises. Choose useful outcomes, budget real time and adjust the plan using evidence.
How did Audrey Hepburn learn to speak six languages? Learn the secrets of some of this history's most famous and prolific language leaners.
What if language learning could be as fun as playing Super Mario? It can be - and taking this approach will level up your language skills.
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