How Many Languages Can One Person Speak?
There is no single useful maximum. Compare language ability by task, skill, recency and evidence, then build an honest language profile.
Category: Success Stories
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.
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.
Language Immersion: 3 Lessons from Starting Over
Jeremy Ginsburg shares three language-immersion lessons from Vietnam: build support, stay curious and use a short journal to review each day.
How to Learn a Language While Studying Abroad
Guest contributor Winfried shares how he learnt Norwegian in Oslo, plus current Erasmus+ checks and practical ways to use the local language.
Learn Persian (Farsi): A Practical Beginner’s Guide
Learn Persian step by step: choose your variety, understand the script, practise core grammar and use current Farsi resources with feedback.
Learning Russian for 2 Weeks: What Worked and What Didn’t
A two-week Russian learning case study: setting A1 speaking goals, moving from phonetic notes to Cyrillic, practising with tutors and reviewing progress.
A Year Without Speaking English: What I Learned
Scott Young recounts a year learning Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and Korean without English, then shares practical ways to try deeper immersion.
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