19Aug
19 Aug 2021
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, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal. It is my observation that most people who take TOEIC, especially in […]
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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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13 Aug 2019
My Method for Learning Languages from Scratch
How do you start a language from scratch? What is your process to learn a language? Obviously, right now I’m focusing on four Slavic languages. I have studied all those four languages to varying degrees before, so I’m not starting from scratch. In fact, the last language I started from scratch I guess was Ukrainian, […]
Read more My Method for Learning Languages from Scratch02May
2 May 2019
How to Learn Words
How to Learn Words has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. The original video was published on November 20, 2012 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. Today I want to talk primarily about how I learn words because that was a request I had from one of the people who follows me here at […]
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18 Apr 2019
More Tips for Learning Spanish
If you do enough reading and listening in Spanish, you’re attentive to the language and you occasionally review this kind of explanation, (but rely largely on repeated exposure in different contexts), you will eventually be able to get that natural sense for Spanish verbs and you can master them.
Read more More Tips for Learning Spanish19Mar
19 Mar 2019
How to Maintain What We’ve Learned
Language and Memory: How to Maintain What We’ve Learned has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. Original video was published on July 13, 2013 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann. First of all, I apologize. I’m not going to do this video in Portuguese; although, I had said that I would. That leads me to the […]
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14 Mar 2019
How Our Emotions Influence Our Language Skills
How Our Emotions Influence Our Language Skills has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. Original video was published on April 2, 2013 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. I want to make a video in response to a video that I received from Lucas from Brazil. He posted this video in response to one of […]
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12 Mar 2019
Business Vocabulary Can’t be Taught
Business Vocabulary Can’t be Taught has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. Original video was published on December 19, 2012 I want to do a video because I’ve been putting up these Google Hangout videos and one of my viewers said we want to see the old style video where you talk about language learning, […]
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5 Mar 2019
Instead of Just Studying Languages, Explore Them
Instead of Just Studying Languages, Explore Them and You’ll Learn has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. Original video was published on Jan 3, 2019 So we’re out for a walk in London. It’s kind of a cool day, but it’s lovely to walk. It’s not raining. What I thought I’d talk about today […]
Read more Instead of Just Studying Languages, Explore Them25Jan
25 Jan 2019
Speaking Face-to-Face, How Important is It?
Speaking Face-to-Face, How Important is It? has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. You can download the audio and study the transcript as a lesson at LingQ. Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here back in Vancouver. The weather is nice. It’s a little cooler than Palm Springs. Today I want to talk about the importance of […]
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