How to Say “Family” in Chinese: An Ultimate Guide to Family in Chinese Culture
How to say “family” in Chinese -- plus many more Chinese family words, and what family really means in Chinese culture.
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#081 | Carine Lemaire on Fearless Language Practice
Language coach and French teacher, Carine Lemaire, shares about her experience growing up trilingual, being a language learner with ADHD, watching 300 hours of TV, and the pitfalls of language apps.
Getting rid of your English accent when speaking a foreign language
Right, let’s get down to business! If you want to sound like a local, you need to work on many things and your foreigner accent is one of them. When I speak in English I’ve got a lovely wee (slightly watered down) Irish accent. However, when trying to speak my first foreign language I had […]
How to Start Learning Italian
My big hobby after languages is making videos. I’ve combined the two on my multilingual site with several videos about my travels and other subjects, in 7 languages. This has really helped me to practise my languages as I travel. But instead of just making the videos about different random topics in several languages, I’m starting on a long-term project of making videos about languages as I learn them or travel to the country where they are spoken.
Sound Cool in Spanish with these 40+ Spanish Slang Words
“Cool” in Spanish is “guay”. And here are 40+ more cool Spanish words from all around the Spanish speaking world!
How to Remember Words in Another Language: Strategies for Long-Term Language Skill Retention
Learning a new language is valuable over time, but can seem intimidating at first. Learning how to remember words is essential to mastering your multilingual future.
Language Learning for Introverts
Speaking a language is a skill. Like any other skill, if you really want to get good at it then it’s going to require practice. For languages that means lots of time talking, meeting new people, socializing, getting out there and making mistakes. If you’re an extrovert that all sounds great.
But if you’re an introvert – that’s terrifying.
Introverts and extroverts just don’t function the same as each other. As a result, trying to force an introvert to study like an extrovert or vice versa is never going to work as well as finding a learning style that’s tailored to how that person learns best.
Thankfully if you’re on the introverted side of things, all is not lost.
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