Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Benny explores American English phonetics and sentence rhythm to see how pronunciation training can support his other language projects.
A candid 2013 account of the practical and emotional downsides of long-term nomad life, after almost ten years travelling without a permanent base.
From greetings and gestures to tipping and shoes indoors, here are 23 habits Benny picked up while living abroad, with context for each one.
Guest author Luca Lampariello explains why mistakes matter in language learning and how reflection can turn them into useful feedback.
Find free online dictionaries for 21 languages, with bilingual, monolingual, learner and terminology options plus a practical lookup method.
Use this five-step sound-training routine to connect listening, pronunciation, feedback and conversation without treating reading as the enemy.
Benny explains how he reactivated his Hungarian before a Polyglot Conference and what he learned from a weekend with multilingual speakers.
Build a practical study plan with current free language courses, exchanges, media, dictionaries and feedback tools, with clear freemium limits.
Julie Ferguson shares how she learned five languages while severely deaf and partially sighted, including barriers, adaptations and travel.
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