French Idioms Crash Course: How to Sound Like a Native French Speaker
You can improve your French pronunciation and sound more like a native speaker with these simple tips and idiomatic French phrases.
Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
You can improve your French pronunciation and sound more like a native speaker with these simple tips and idiomatic French phrases.
The Rapid Learner program from Scott H. Young aims to help you learn faster and smarter. But does it work? We tested it out, and here’s what we found.
After completing a bus journey across South America and visiting all 26 Brazilian states, with only six left to go...
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 […]
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 […]
Now, I knew everyone wouldn’t want it to say “Cunning Linguist”!! That’s just too cheeky for a lot of people (if you don’t get the joke, then say it quickly and you’ll notice it sounds like something else…), especially since a linguist isn’t the same as a language lover. Despite this, I have to say that in some places, especially in English speaking countries where people get the joke, I’ve had so many complete strangers come up to me and compliment me on the hilarious play on words.
But since that may be too risqué for many, I made sure that the options “Language Lover” (generally more understandable) and “Polyglot” (more specific and accurate, even if a less known word in English.. for the moment 😉 ) were available instead, also in the same dialogue world bubble.
Want to learn German colors? Rot, blau, grün, gelb. We’ve got all 7 colors of the rainbow here - in German. Plus 6 bonus colors!
As a language learner, it's a good idea to have basic writing skills. That way, you can send emails and text messages, or note down important phrases.
You can get speaking practise in a new language without the stress of a live conversation. Here are 15 ways to do just that.
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