For people who love languages, or would but were discouraged.
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10Nov
10 Nov 2020
Listening Comprehension: An Important Language Skill
I believe that listening comprehension is an important skill in language learning. That is what you should drive for first of all. If you develop good listening comprehension, the other skills will come, the speaking will come, even your grammar, your accuracy.
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02Nov
2 Nov 2020
Interview with Olly Richards, Polyglot and Creator of Language Learning Readers
My name is Olly Richards and I blog at a website called I Will Teach You a Language dot com. That's where I kind of started this whole journey. Over the years, I have kind of shifted into teaching languages and creating books and courses to teach people. I have an approach that centers around stories. I call this method Story Learning. That's how I'm kind of branding it these days. So to help [...]
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27Oct
27 Oct 2020
Three Stages of Listening to Get to Fluency
A lot of this content, as in the case of our mini stories, has a lot of high-frequency verbs. You're certainly going to come across the high-frequency words and verbs often and, therefore, it's easier to get to know them. As you listen to this stuff whereas when you started everything was just noise and you think you'll never learn this language, particularly if it's written in a different [...]
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20Oct
20 Oct 2020
How to Avoid Giving Up in Language Learning
I'm not saying that I'm an expert on anything. I can only share with you my experience of language learning. I want to talk today about how we can make sure that we stay the course. The secret to success in language learning is to stay with it, not to be discouraged, so I kind of looked at some of the things that I'm doing. What is it that maintains my enthusiasm that keeps me going?
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13Oct
13 Oct 2020
Learning Languages in the Moment
I'm driving up here with my wife and we're listening to a podcast about the Byzantine Empire. So I'm enjoying the drive. I'm enjoying listening to the Byzantine Empire podcast. Why am I listening to a podcast about the Byzantine Empire? Because I've been learning Arabic, Persian and Turkish, so I'm kind of exploring that part of the world. I've read books now on the history of Persia or of [...]
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08Oct
8 Oct 2020
Want to Learn English? Stay Positive like Gabby of Go Natural English
So, I'm very happy to have with me today Gabby of Go Natural English because very often we talk about learning languages other than English, although English, of course, is the language that is the most widely studied in the world. In fact, many of my viewers, I know many of you out there, like to listen to me speak English. You can even import from YouTube. Study it from LingQ if you want. [...]
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29Sep
29 Sep 2020
Passive Vocabulary: Why it Matters in Language Learning
Today, I want to talk about passive vocabulary. At LingQ, for example, we say a word is known if you can recognize that word in a context. So if I'm working on LingQ, I see a word. I know what it means in the context. I can say I know that word. I can also say I don't know that word. In other words, I decide if I know that word. But if I understand the word in that context, typically, I will [...]
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22Sep
22 Sep 2020
A Guide to French Pronunciation
French was the first language where I was able to transform myself into a fluent speaker of another language, other than English. I love listening to French when it is spoken well. I think acquiring good French pronunciation is one of the challenges that French learners face, and so I would like to offer a […]
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18Sep
18 Sep 2020
Learn English Without Studying Modal Verbs
Learn English Without Studying Modal Verbs I want to briefly cover modal verbs because very often I get asked the following: How can I get better, more accurate in my use of modal verbs? I get other very specific questions related to aspects of English or other languages. Well, my advice is you […]
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15Sep
15 Sep 2020
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.
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