Japanese Uncovered Review: Is the Force Strong with This One?
Can you really learn Japanese through story? In this Japanese Uncovered review, Caitlin shares how she got on with the course.
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How Do You Get Spoken Practice in a Less Common Language?
How do you get language practise when native speakers are genuinely hard to come by? Simple idea, but very effective: Find other learners My friend Brandon initially had this very issue with his project to learn Icelandic. It’s a country of just 300,000 people, and they are not so likely to be on language learning […]
Tips for Learning Non-European Languages
Now that the summer has wrapped up, it’s time to dive back into language learning, and let’s start with some thoughts on non-European languages! For that, my hyperpolyglot friend Judith Meyer is back and has written up this excellent post for us. I met in Esperanto gatherings and always see her busy answering Quora questions, […]
How to Learn New Vocabulary: 3 Practical Ways to Find Useful Words
Learn new vocabulary with a balanced mix of context, word lists, conversation, useful notes and spaced recall.
Time to Level Up! Examples of how you can use your language anywhere
The most famous example people know of me (and my friend Moses) levelling up, is when we went to a mall in Columbus Ohio and spoke over a dozen languages. I’ve had people email me to ask where are good places to level up, as if a list can be compiled. Actually, you can do […]
Benny’s New Year’s Resolution: NOT learn a new language this year(?!)
A belated Happy 2014 to everyone! And a สวัสดีครับ (hello) from Thailand – my temporary stop before I head to Japan in a couple of weeks to begin my language and cultural immersion experience there. I can’t wait! This post is an update of my plans for the year, but it’s not the big news […]
French Uncovered Review — Does “Story Learning” Really Work for French?
In this French Uncovered review, French learner Elizabeth shares her honest opinion about the course and whether it’s a good fit for beginner French learners.
A fluent in 3 months mission from the outside: Scott and Vat’s first week speaking only Spanish
From the blog’s origin era (2009–2014) — kept as lived proof of the method. See all the missions. As you all know, I am currently in Valencia, my favourite city in the world! I wanted to give myself 2 weeks to settle in before starting my big language project, which I’ll announce here on the […]
Valencia, Spain: My new home for the next language project!
Those of you who know my story from TEDx talks or blog revelations, will remember that ten years ago I had graduated university in engineering and moved to Valencia Spain, and after six months of the English-speaking-expat lifestyle changed my ways and started my first language learning project of Spanish and then things really took […]
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