Why hard work isn’t what makes good learners
Don't work hard on your language - works smart! How? Well, here is an engineering approach. The most important is that...
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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 […]
#005 | Olly Richards on Living Abroad and Story Learning
Language educator and author Olly Richards joins Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy in this episode of the Language Hacking Podcast. He shares about his “Story Learning” method and how his experience learning languages led him to develop this approach. Featured Resources Spanish Uncovered German Uncovered French Uncovered Italian Uncovered Japanese Uncovered Language Hacking Books Olly’s […]
#99 | Shannon and Elizabeth on Self-Compassion in Language Learning
Language Hacking Podcast co-hosts Shannon Kennedy and Elizabeth Bruckner catch up and talk about how this last year has been a time of learning, and building self-compassion and resilience in both language learning and life.
#114 | Luca Sadurny on Mosalingua and Ikigai
Luca Sadurny, co-founder of Mosalingua, talks about how learning French helped him discover that everyone can learn a language when using the right method. A discovery that later led to the foundation of the popular language learning resource Mosalingua.
10 Must-Try Russian Podcasts and YouTube Channels (and more!) for Russian Learners
These Russian language audio resources - including podcasts and videos - are a great way to improve your Russian listening skills.
#021 | Avital Spivak on Forgetting French then Falling Back in Love with Languages
In this episode, we chat with Fluent in 3 Months Challenge participant and coach, Avi Spitak, who rediscovered her love of languages learning Chinese in the Challenge.
How to speak a language pretty well, starting from scratch, in just two months
Want to speak Spanish well, speak French well, speak German well, or any language for that matter? If I can do this with Czech starting from zero, imagine what you can do! I’d like to summarise everything I’ve discussed on the site regarding my earliest intensive language experiment. I was initially aiming for fluency in 3 […]
#135 | Azren on Going from Window Cleaner to Language Teacher
Azren grew up multilingual and made a career out of his passion for languages. He currently speaks English, French, Spanish, Gujarati, and Mandarin, but his online tutoring business covers 11 more… Some of which are not widely spoken worldwide.
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