If you read different sources to see what language ‘experts’ have to say about mastering a language, you’ll get such vastly different advice that sometimes it’s hard to know which one to apply. Listen a lot even when you sleep, read all day, study thousands of words of vocabulary before you are ready to speak, […]
MOREHow I learned to speak German in 3 Months
Learning German doesn’t have to be hard. Back in 2010, I went from a beginner level to near mastery in German in just 3 months. But I’m not a language genius, or a natural with languages. If languages came “naturally” to me, then I would have aced German the first time round. I didn’t. I […]
MOREShocking truth about passive listening
A whole industry of language learning products is based on something that I have to frankly say that I think is absolute rubbish. Some people swear by it, and yet it rarely ever produces any useful results. The shocking truth is that passive listening is never going to get you to fluency in a language. […]
MORECouchsurfing: How to practise with a native without even needing to leave your home
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 […]
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