Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
“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
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 […]
These 20 weird words from various languages are obscure, silly, strange and very cool sounding. And some of them are plain badass!
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 […]
Follow Elizabeth’s journey as she aims for a 15 minute conversation in Spanish after just 90 days of learning (part 2).
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If you’re here, chances are you have a burning question on your tongue: How to learn a language fast? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. Here are eight language hacks to learn a language faster: But I haven’t always known about them. In fact, I’m able to share these hacks with you today because I […]
Learn how to express your affection and say “my love” in different languages from all over the world.
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