For people who love languages, or would but were discouraged.
- Believe in yourself and have the right attitude
- Put in an hour a day
- Use a system that works... like LingQ
Free19Sep
19 Sep 2019
Want to Learn Languages Faster? Go Easy on the Grammar
For the last week I’ve been studying Serbo-Croatian. We have the Serbian mini stories at LingQ, so I’ve been at it for a week. I’m going to try to speak, obviously, when I’m in Croatia. I’m going to try to understand. That’s why I’m trying to learn as much of the language as I can […]
Read more Want to Learn Languages Faster? Go Easy on the Grammar17Sep
17 Sep 2019
3 Tips to Power up Your English Learning
Today I want to talk about English, the most widely-studied language in the world with the largest number of second language speakers. It’s become the international language of communication, business, even science. So, lots of people learning English. I think lots of people are stuck at a level in English where they would like to […]
Read more 3 Tips to Power up Your English Learning12Sep
12 Sep 2019
Learning Several Languages at the Same Time – And Keeping Them
I want to talk about learning three languages at the same time or several languages at the same time. How do we keep them, how do we not forget them and what do we do when we do forget them? I finished my three months of Turkish. I went from zero to the level that […]
Read more Learning Several Languages at the Same Time – And Keeping Them10Sep
10 Sep 2019
Language Learning Is Not a Race
Today I’m going to talk about the pace — the amount of time, with what intensity we study languages and things that influence that. I’m going to start by confessing that I haven’t been doing much Arabic learning the last little while. First of all, the reason for that is I had a new floor […]
Read more Language Learning Is Not a Race05Sep
5 Sep 2019
Listening Activity: How Do You Spend Your Time?
I have previously talked about whether people are vocabulary builders or vocabulary memorizers and I sort of said that memorizers spend a lot of time with Anki decks or lists and try to nail down vocabulary and that is a large part of their language learning. Vocabulary builders prefer to let the vocabulary accumulate through […]
Read more Listening Activity: How Do You Spend Your Time?03Sep
3 Sep 2019
Language Learning is Getting Easier All the Time
Today I want to talk about how language learning has become so much easier today and how it’s going to continue to become easier. First of all, LangFest was a great four or five days for me in Montreal. It’s such a wonderful bilingual city, multilingual city. The people at the conference, of course, there’s […]
Read more Language Learning is Getting Easier All the Time29Aug
29 Aug 2019
Universities – Who Should Pay?
I’m going to stray a little bit from my usual focus on language learning and I’m going to talk about education, in general. I’m going to talk universities and, specifically, refer to the strikes that we’re experiencing here in Canada in the Province of Quebec where university students have been striking for weeks now in […]
Read more Universities – Who Should Pay?27Aug
27 Aug 2019
Why I Enjoy Learning Languages
Because learning languages is a big part of success, people who don’t enjoy learning languages are less likely to be successful. You can’t force yourself to do something that involves your emotions, involves a commitment to sort of imitating another language and culture and getting outside of the comfort of your language, one that you’re […]
Read more Why I Enjoy Learning Languages22Aug
22 Aug 2019
How Many Languages Do You Speak?
I’m often asked, how many languages do you speak? I think many polyglots are asked this question and it’s a difficult question to answer because we can have varying degrees of knowledge of languages. Some languages we can just speak right away. If you ask me to say something in my stronger languages I can […]
Read more How Many Languages Do You Speak?20Aug
20 Aug 2019
What Makes Languages Easier to Learn
I’m often asked, how long does it take to learn a language, which language is the easiest to learn, are some languages easier than others and so forth, so here’s my take on what makes languages easier. The first thing is how much similar vocabulary is there. If you are an English speaker learning French […]
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