How to Read Japanese Manga [+ 10 Easy Manga Series for Beginners Learning Japanese]
What is Japanese manga called? In Japanese, it’s written as 漫画 (*manga*) in kanji. Learn how to read Japanese manga in their original language!
Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
What is Japanese manga called? In Japanese, it’s written as 漫画 (*manga*) in kanji. Learn how to read Japanese manga in their original language!
If you want to make people believe that you are able to speak like a native Italian speaker would, you need to learn how to form plural nouns.
Let’s be honest. I can take it. Americans aren’t exactly known for our foreign language ability. Often, we speak English and we simply expect the rest of the world to do so as well. There are many reasons why this problem has developed, but that’s not the purpose of this article.
As with all stereotypes there is both a bit of truth here as well as many exceptions. I’m an American diplomat (or Foreign Service Officer as we’re officially known) and it is not only helpful in my job to learn foreign languages, it is required.
Julie Ferguson is registered deaf and blind. She also speaks five languages. Julie shared her story with us before here on the blog as well as in the Fluent in 3 Months book. This is the inspirational story of her recent visit to Japan. Deafblind in Japan I’m nightblind. I’m standing in Akihabara, Tokyo, in the […]
A tutorial on how to use the italki Language Hacking community that’s part of the Language Hacking courses by Benny Lewis, published by Teach Yourself.
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 […]
When learning a language, you will mess up and you will make mistakes. Believe it or not, that's a good thing. Here's why you must make mistakes.
*Note: Written in 2010 Just one week into my latest crazy mission and I am happy to report that I have only been speaking German with Germans since I got here. Apart from with my landlord (who is American) and lunch with a Canadian friend, I have used no English at all outside of the […]
Did you know there’s no Guinness World Record for “most languages spoken” Why this omission? The answer lies in the curious story of Zlad Fazah.
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