Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Throw away your dusty old dead tree dictionaries! They are either too bulky (and expensive) to use conveniently, and not updated regularly enough, or they are too small to cover all the words you might need. It’s the 21st century, so lets embrace all the free online dictionaries available to us! Multilingual dictionaries When discussing […]
Does Rocket Languages work well? In this review, I explore three Rocket Languages courses to answer this question.
To some, learning minority and indigenous languages may seem like a waste of time. Why go through the trouble to learn them? Here’s why they matter to me...
Have you ever wondered if you have an alter ego? By learning other languages you can find a new identity! That’s right. Learning another language gives you a new personality. If you already speak other languages, you might have noticed this for yourself. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you’ll end up like the case of The […]
It’s time for another guest post from Fi3M’s most frequent guest contributor, Idahosa, of The Mimic Method. Since I’m currently working on improving (among other things) my accent in various languages, this post is very timely for myself! I’ll get into using Soundcloud too for feedback on the specific problems I need to fix (such […]
Let’s face it; being able to speak multiple languages would be really cool. But can it be done by the average person without getting really confused? When I was living in Spain, still only able to speak English, I hung out with a Brazilian who absolutely wowed me as he switched between people at our […]
Masculine or Feminine (or Neuter)? This can be one of the most frustrating things for beginner to intermediate learners; the added information they have to learn of associating a gender with each word. Not only can it seem pointless to assign a gender to inanimate sexless objects (especially for native English speakers who aren’t used […]
One of the most frequent questions I get asked is How can I become a polyglot like you? A polyglot is someone who can speak several languages. You can see me demonstrate the ones that I know in the compilation video above. You can see the full version of all of those videos in several different languages on my videoblog. [Edit: Here’s a much cooler video I made in 8 languages]
Alice Cimino learned Spanish and English through full immersion as an eighth-grader. Here she shares her strategies for how she became fluent in these languages.
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