16Mar
Come to Vancouver and Learn With Me!
Join me in Vancouver, at our LingQ headquarters, for three months to do the following:- Spend two hours a day studying English with LingQ under my personal guidance. - Spend up to five hours a day of working with our LingQ team in English. - Spend the rest of your time taking advantage of living in an English speaking environment.
Read more Come to Vancouver and Learn With Me!24Jan
Want to Achieve a Language Learning Breakthrough?
What constitutes the essence of achieving a breakthrough in language learning? I think that the key lies in the word “linking”. First of all learners must form emotional links with the language they are learning. They must be interested in the language, in the people and in some aspects of the culture.
Read more Want to Achieve a Language Learning Breakthrough?18Jan
The Two Stages of Language Learning: The Upside Down Hockey Stick
There are two stages in language learning: the initial intense study of a limited number of words, and the later more extensive approach to learning in order to acquire the up to 10,000 words needed to function at a professional level. These two stages make up the upside down hockey stick.
Read more The Two Stages of Language Learning: The Upside Down Hockey Stick13Nov
Can you get “brain freeze” when speaking a new language? And Other Questions
Can you get “brain freeze” when speaking a new language? In other words, sometimes we know the word, we know what we want to say, but we just can’t remember the word. We can’t say it and the more we try to remember it, of course, the more we ensure that we won’t be able to remember it.
Read more Can you get “brain freeze” when speaking a new language? And Other Questions03Sep
My First Day of the 90-Day Challenge
Well, it’s time to get busy Learning Polish! I started by listening to and reading the series “Who is She” in our Polish library at LingQ, while working out on my stepping machine, using my iPad. I have gone through this course before so there are a lot of words that I have looked up […]
Read more My First Day of the 90-Day Challenge04Jun
What Do You Believe? The Placebo Effect Of Language Learning
This is a transcript of one of my YouTube Videos – To keep up with my latest thoughts on language learning, subscribe to my YouTube Channel. Hi There Steve Kaufmann here again to talk about language learning. And I want to talk about something that I often think of and that I have been meaning to […]
Read more What Do You Believe? The Placebo Effect Of Language Learning29Apr
Interleaved learning, or learning without pressure
Interleaved learning is an approach to learning that departs from the traditional block or focused approach to learning. Interleaved learning and the research behind it, is based on the idea that if we should not focus on learning or mastering one skill or set of information, such as a limited group of words in a […]
Read more Interleaved learning, or learning without pressure17Aug
Эхо Москвы (Echo Moskvi) at LingQ!
LingQ has obtained permission to use content from Echo Moskvi in our Russian Library. We will be adding lots of their lively interviews to LingQ. They are great for learning Russian and will be available for free download from our site. But for the real thing visit Echo at their site.
Read more Эхо Москвы (Echo Moskvi) at LingQ!05Aug
Passive vocabulary and fluency
Anthony Lauder, who has a channel at YouTube called FluentCzech, made an excellent presentation at the recent polyglot conference in Budapest. He started a thread about it at our forum on LingQ. This thread has meandered onto a variety of subjects, both relevant and irrelevant, and has now reached four pages in length. The gist […]
Read more Passive vocabulary and fluency01Aug
Reading a grammar book is like reading a manual
Reading a grammar book is like reading a manual. Grammar explanations are very hard to understand and absorb until we have enough experience with the language. As a person commented on a video I did a few years ago called “Krashen and Grammar“: “This is consistent with James Paul Gee’s statement that textbooks are “manuals”, […]
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