The Women in Language Conference: My Experience of This Online Language Event
An in-depth, totally biased review of the Women in Language Conference. Come join us for an amazing weekend of polyglot fun!
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70+ Ways to Say “Beautiful” in Different Languages
Looking for another word for beautiful? There’s definitely no shortage of words for “beautiful” in these 14 different languages from around the world.
Old English Writing: A History of the Old English Alphabet
Old English was written with a runic alphabet. Discover the history of Old English writing, and how it changed into modern English.
The Catalan Language: How to Learn Catalan Quickly
Discover how to speak Catalan. The Catalan language may have only 10 million speakers. But when you learn Catalan, a whole new world opens up to you.
How I turned my guerilla-style language-learning method into a course you’ll find in bookshops around the world
I learned my first foreign language, Spanish, mostly by hanging out with Erasmus students during the gap year I spent in Valencia, Spain. In other words, I learned Spanish through speaking it. My second language project was Italian. And I learned it quickly — surprisingly quickly — in just a few months while I worked […]
How Many Languages Can One Person Speak?
Did you know there’s no Guinness World Record for “most languages spoken” Why this omission? The answer lies in the curious story of Zlad Fazah.
A Year Without Speaking English
How fast could you learn a language… if you totally avoided speaking English? How difficult would it be to live completely outside your native tongue, starting with just the basics of a brand new language? Could you become reasonably fluent in just three months? There are the questions my friend Vat and I set out […]
Standard Arabic or Local Dialect – Which Should You Learn First?
Probably one of the most frequent comments I’ve received on my videos over the last months, usually from people in Arabic speaking countries that are not Egypt, or from elitist academics, all of whom ignored my travel-in-Egypt focus, has been “You should be learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)! It’s much better than dialect!”
Now that I’m actually using what I spent months preparing for, in the country itself, I can confirm that learning a dialect is far superior to learning MSA if you plan to speak the language.
Learning Egyptian Arabic to fluency in 3 months… in Brazil! Benny’s new language mission!
This may be one of the craziest language projects I’ve ever undertaken! Watch the video for the proper introduction. As you’ll see, I have three months, starting today, to reach fluency (more specifically, high level B2/low C1 on this scale) in (Egyptian) Arabic and I plan to do it… in Brazil!
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