“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan As I wrote earlier in the week, my […]
MORE9 of the most unlikely countries to find the language you want to learn
In the last five months, I have definitely received the most double takes of my life whenever I said that I had been learning all my Egyptian Arabic in Brazil.
It’s just such an unlikely combination! Brazil has never had a huge or even tiny wave of Egyptian immigration. While there, I only managed to meet one single Egyptian in person in my entire 3 months. This was partially the reason I did it – to prove that even if there are no natives nearby, you can learn to speak the language entirely online.
MOREInterview in Irish (as Gaeilge): Raidió na Life, modern Irish use and how I got into the language myself
[Quick reminder: the next language mission will be announced in the Language Hacking League email list next week! Enter your email in the top-right of the site to find out in advance of the blog announcement] Check out today’s video interview with Diarmuid Ó Mathúna from Raidió na Life, and don’t forget to click Youtube’s […]
MOREAdvanced Hiberno English: More on How to speak English like the Irish
I’m back in the Emerald Isle for the month (currently up in Donegal again, improving my Gaeilge before going back to Cavan for the Fleadh). It’s not just great to be speaking our first national language again, but also our second one; since I don’t have to water down my English to be more understandable, […]
MOREFree online Irish language learning resources and cool videos
This weekend is St. Patrick’s Day, the background of which I discussed in this post a year ago (while insisting that Americans do NOT call it “Patty’s day”) Another thing that happens this week is Seachtain na Gaeilge [literally, Irish (language) week] – an awareness initiative aligning with the week leading up to or around […]
MOREThe Cavan Fleadh: Irish music and culture festival [flashmob & music videos]
While the role of a traveller is usually to investigate foreign cultures, in some cases we can actually find quite a lot right home. In August I went back to my home town, Cavan, in Ireland and found precisely that! My home turned into a carnival of traditional Irish music and some dancing and even […]
MORE6 languages, 1 singer, 1 signer [video]
Now I can finally share this video with you – it combines clever ASL videos I keep seeing online that sign lyrics to songs (one example shared here), with my need to have the entire Internet hear me sing in as many languages as possible 😛 I give you, 6 languages, 1 singer, 1 signer: […]
MOREHappy Paddy’s day!
Public service announcement: To all American readers, please call this day Paddy’s day and not Patty‘s (or Patti‘s) day. Say the original St. Patrick’s Day or use the Irish nickname with d’s. We spell it with d’s instead of t’s because it’s based on the Irish version of the name Pádraig. We aren’t celebrating burgers […]
MORE[video] The Irish language, presented by a leprechaun!
Video in English: Video in Irish with English subtitles: Please click through to the site to see video. Happy St. Patrick’s day!! To continue the current theme of celebrating the Irish language and culture, I’d like to share a short video with you! This video is shown above in English, and then in Irish (with subtitles), […]
MORELearning the Irish language (Gaeilge)
[Note: If you’d like something interesting to read in Irish (translated by natives from the Gaeltacht) check out the full version and now uprgaded Language Hacking Guide in the Fluent In 3 Months PREMIUM package] Gaeilge Gaeilge, Irish, or “Irish Gaelic” is the national and first official language of Ireland, as well as one of the […]
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