Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Sorry traditionalists, but printed dictionaries are on the way out! They are either too small to contain enough entries or too large for those of us who travel, as well as being too expensive. In the time it takes me to go get a big fat dictionary, and flick through the pages for a particular […]
How long does it take to learn German? Learning German doesn’t have to be hard. Back in 2010, I went from a beginner level to near mastery in German in just 3 months. But I’m not a language genius, or a natural with languages. I’ve revealed the techniques I’ve used to learn German in my in-depth […]
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Is 90 Day Korean a good course for Korean learners? Shannon Kennedy completed the full course over 5 months, and here’s her 90 Day Korean review.
After I got back from Siwa, I got on the train to Cairo for my flight to Sharm el Sheikh. Unlike the previous occasion that I had gotten the train, I arrived with plenty of time!
But I had a completely different problem this time! After I got on the train, I was a little weary of anything happening to my window after rocks had been thrown at it on the Luxor-Cairo leg, and the sun was shining in on my face, so I thought I should pull down the blind of course.
Practise your Vietnamese skills with these fun games and exercises. Try Vietnamese karaoke, watch Vietnamese videos, and play the family tree game.
Systems are really effective when it comes to language learning. Here's how to create a language learning system that works for you.
Adding podcasts into your Swahili study routine can help you push your language skills to the next level!
“Mastering” Chinese can indeed take a long time to do, but getting to a very useful intermediate level is well within the reach of most people, and from that point progressing further won’t be that bad. It is indeed hard work, but if you put it side by side with European languages, then saying it’s “damn hard”, or “orders of magnitude harder than European languages” is nothing but an exaggeration
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