Chinese Clothing: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional and Modern Styles
When you think of Chinese clothing, different images probably come to mind. Perhaps you envision the elegant flow of a silk qipao...
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How to travel the world like Indiana Jones
While I mostly talk about language learning here on Fi3M, I know a lot of you follow the blog for the travel/culture aspect of it, since travel can indeed be a huge adventure for so many of us. So today’s guest post is from Matt Kepnes, who runs Nomadic Matt’s travel site. I’ve met Matt […]
Handcrafted audio for remembering what you learn
Today’s guest post is from Aaron G. Myers. I met him while in Istanbul and he had some interesting ideas about language learning that he blogs about regularly, so I thought they’d be worth sharing here! Off you go Aaron! One challenge language learners face is in retaining the immense amount of new information taken […]
New mission: Speak Klingon in time for the Star Trek convention
While I usually travel to new countries for cultural immersion, and learning the local language hugely enhances that experience, for the next four weeks I’m taking a fun diversion! My next language is Klingon. For those of you who don’t know it, it’s the fictional language used by one particular alien species on the TV […]
Spending a week in the desert at Burning Man
Back in 2008, I made a video about a very interesting event that takes place in the desert in Nevada, which you can view at the bottom of this post (you can also listen to the commentary, with subtitles for the interviews, in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Irish and Esperanto.) Now, this is where I’m […]
Ask the readers: What is a linguist?
This is something that has been bothering me for some time, so after giving my thoughts on it, I’d love to hear yours. What do you understand it as meaning if someone says that they are a “linguist”? As far as I’m concerned, a linguist is someone who studies linguistics. Linguistics can be a fascinating […]
How to travel the world on the cheap
Today I’ve written a guest post on Get Rich Slowly about How to learn a foreign language without spending a cent. Check it out for a list of my favourite free resources as well as a generally great website that J.D. Roth runs for saving money and spending it wisely. That post is necessary to remind […]
Case study: How Niall Doherty reached conversational competence in Spanish in 3.5 months
Today’s guest post is from Niall Doherty, a fellow Irishman also on the road, who I met this year in Portland. He found my blog, bought the Language Hacking Guide and applied my tips intensively over a short number of months and can indeed speak the language! He’s a great example of the many success […]
Istanbul not Constantinople, Benny’s music video in Turkish
My time in Istanbul is officially over – for the next two weeks I’ll be with my family in Ireland before hitting the road again. (To find out where I’m going and clues of what the next language will be, see Facebook) But to wrap up my time in Istanbul, I’d like to share this […]
The ONLY way to speak a language
There are thousands of ways to learn a language; Pimsleur, LingQ, Rosetta Stone, lots of studying, silently absorbing (click the links to see why I don’t fully recommend learning these ways). There is also SRS, image association, singing along to your favourite songs, and lots of other things that I do recommend. You can argue […]
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