How to Learn Finnish: Why Finnish is Easier than You Think
So you want to learn Finnish? Good job! While some parts of Finnish are tricky, there’s plenty that makes Finnish easy to learn. Here’s how to get started learning Finnish.
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Spanish in 3 Months: Mission Complete! (with Video and Table of Study Time!)
Elizabeth has now completed her mission to learn conversational Spanish in 3 months. Here’s her final update after 90 days, with a video of her progress.
The Language Secrets of Prolific Language Learners
How did Audrey Hepburn learn to speak six languages? Learn the secrets of some of this history's most famous and prolific language leaners.
I’m severely deaf and partially sighted, but have learned 5 languages. Here’s my story
So, I’m Julie Ferguson and I have nothing on Helen Keller! I am, however, severely deaf and partially sighted.
My parents realised that I had a hearing problem when I was 2 years old, though I didn’t get my first hearing aid until I was 4. Unfortunately, when I was 4, nobody could understand me babbling away in my version of English, except for my mum and my brother. Apparently, I was bad. I couldn’t even pronounce my own name (it sounded like Ooee Fehuhoh).
I was sent to speech therapy for intensive work before I started primary school, and I remember working on all those weird sounds especially “spoon”. My particular hearing loss makes it difficult to hear consonants, especially s, h, and f.
My Polyglot Summer mission: Improve TEN languages to the next level (with lots of videos)
Those of you in the email list, and following my Facebook, or twitter found out about this in advance, but today it’s time to announce on the blog what my epic summer language learning mission is, tell you where I’ll be, and precisely what I’ll be working on in TEN languages so that you can […]
Why Chinese isn’t as hard as you think: Encouragement for Learners
“Mastering” Chinese can indeed take a long time to do, but getting to a very useful intermediate level is well within the reach of most people, and from that point progressing further won’t be that bad. It is indeed hard work, but if you put it side by side with European languages, then saying it’s “damn hard”, or “orders of magnitude harder than European languages” is nothing but an exaggeration
Couchsurfing: How to practise with a native without even needing to leave your home
Edit: This post was so well appreciated by people that I’ve rewritten it and added it to lots of other unconventional tips, in the Language Hacking Guide. I recently shared my most important decision ever that started me on the path to becoming a polyglot, but it lead to a lot of questions that some […]
20 Weird Words From Around the World
These 20 weird words from various languages are obscure, silly, strange and very cool sounding. And some of them are plain badass!
Why getting mistaken for a native speaker is much easier than you think
Someone thinking you are a native speaker of your target language is the holy grail of language learners. It’s something many of us dream about, but then sigh to ourselves that it’s just never going to happen. Well, today I want to burst that bubble and tell you that many people genuinely thinking you are […]
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