Earn from Your Passion: Jobs that Travel Around the World
Want a job travelling the world? Find out how to get jobs that travel around the world, so you can earn while you immerse yourself in other cultures.
Category: Success Stories
Learning a New Language: Secrets of Language Learning Pros
What’s the best way to learn a new language? A really good way to approach language hacking is to look at how other people learn – especially how successful language learners pick up a new language and approach the challenges of language learning. By modelling how other people learn languages, you can recreate excellence. Where […]
Nahuatl: How I Learned a Language With Few Native Speakers
Learning a language with few native speakers is a bit like being Indiana Jones.
The Best Immersion Strategies Learned Only After Getting Fired and Starting Over
Not only was I getting fired. I was getting evicted as well, since room and board were part of my contract.
How to Learn a Language While Studying Abroad
Studying abroad is a great way to learn another language. Find out about the opportunities for university students who’d like to study abroad.
Learn to Speak Persian: Your Complete Guide to the Farsi Language
This complete beginner's guide to speaking Persian will teach you everything you need to know about Dari, Tajik, and Farsi language - including resources and where to start.
Essential Lessons from 2 Weeks of Fast, Intense Russian Learning
Two weeks into Lauren’s Russian in 3 Months mission, it’s time for her first update. From the blog’s origin era (2009–2014) — kept as lived proof of the method. See all the missions. She is on a mission to reach a conversational level of Russian by teaching herself, without any formal classes. In this article […]
A Year Without Speaking English
How fast could you learn a language… if you totally avoided speaking English? How difficult would it be to live completely outside your native tongue, starting with just the basics of a brand new language? Could you become reasonably fluent in just three months? There are the questions my friend Vat and I set out […]
Stop Allowing Excuses to Run Your Life!
In my inbox I see hundreds of people sharing their language learning woes every day, and in person I meet many people everywhere I go who struggle to start a language. There are many reasons they give, some of which are valid, but many times they are just excuses. Nothing reminds us more of this […]
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