Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Fun video to share with you today… in Esperanto! Click “CC” to activate subtitles in English (as well as original Esperanto), or if you’re in China (and not using VPN software to circumnavigate the “Great Firewall of China” as I’m clearly doing to be able to use Youtube) then check it out on Youku. I […]
19-year-old student, Ben Phillips, talks to Benny Lewis and Elizabeth Bruckner about how he stayed focussed and motivated enough to reach a C1 (advanced) level in German after just 12 months.
How fast could you learn a language… if you totally avoided speaking English? How difficult would it be to live completely outside your native tongue, starting with just the basics of a brand new language? Could you become reasonably fluent in just three months? There are the questions my friend Vat and I set out […]
Those of you who have been following this blog and reading some of my best tips, know that sometimes I focus on advice for those of you already abroad. Even though you don’t have to be rich to be able to travel to another country to learn a language, sometimes it just isn’t desirable or […]
As you can imagine, with over eight years on the road, I have had quite a few things happen to me. Today I’m going to share one of my many (mis)adventures. It takes place in 2006, in Rio – my first time in the city. I would come back three years later to live there […]
Meet Nikki Prša. Mom. Writer. Vlogger. Speaker of seven languages. Here’s how she does it.
In this article, Matt gives you the names of the most common vegetables in Mandarin and tells you a little about their usage in Chinese cuisine.
German noun genders can be tricky. Here are shortcuts you can use to learn them faster.
It’s September and people are going back to school and are learning languages inside classrooms again. I think it’s time for me to open up this pandora’s box and discuss why I don’t think classrooms work for language learning. Of course, the classroom itself isn’t the only problem so rather than argue for the sake […]
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