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August 19, 2021 Steve Learning Techniques Traditional Instruction Education Language learning ...

All You Need to Truly Ace the TOEIC Test

TOEIC, the Test of English for International Communication, is probably the most widely taken test of English language proficiency in the world. TOEIC is taken by around seven million people every year,…

My experience with effectively memorizing vocabulary.

December 15, 2020 Steve Learning Techniques

How to Memorize Vocabulary – Is It Even Necessary?

In my opinion, the best way to memorize vocabulary is NOT to memorize vocabulary. I have always found that trying to memorize vocabulary is an extremely low-efficiency activity. No matter how hard you try, some words are going to stick and some words will not stick until much, much later.

September 15, 2020 Steve Learning Techniques

Should You Try Learning Two Languages At Once?

I am asked this question regularly from my YouTube and blog viewers. if I would recommend learning two languages at the same time or not. Well, first of all, a person who is learning one language and wants to learn another language or even a third language is something that I fully understand and fully endorse.

January 28, 2020 Steve Learning Techniques

Reading May Be the Secret of My Success in Language Learning

Breaking News –Special Report: A new way of recording and transmitting information has been discovered, even more convenient than mp3 technology. It’s called reading, yes, writing things down for others to read!…

September 24, 2019 Steve Learning Techniques

Enrich Your Language Learning With Blogs and Podcasts

I want to talk about blogging and podcasts as a means of enriching your language learning content, variety and, particularly, as a step from beginner material to the more difficult, more demanding…

September 19, 2019 Steve Learning Techniques

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…

September 5, 2019 Steve Learning Techniques

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…

July 30, 2019 Steve Learning Techniques Language learning

First 3 Months Fluency is NOT the Goal

Today I want to talk about three months because three months comes up quite often. We have our 90-day challenges at LingQ. I have done quite a few. I have done it…

July 25, 2019 Steve Learning Techniques learn languages online Multiple Languages

Learning Multiple Languages at Once: Is It a Good Idea?

I don’t think it takes any special talent to learn multiple languages. Some people may do better than others, but everyone can do it. Some may pronounce better, some may have a larger vocabulary, different people have different interests, but everyone is capable of doing it. It’s an extremely rewarding thing to do.