Unconventional language hacking tips from Benny the Irish polyglot; travelling the world to learn languages to fluency and beyond!
Gabby Wallace, creator of Go Natural English, joins Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy to talk about teaching English online, how renovating houses is like learning languages, and what it was like to live in a favela in Brazil.
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 […]
In years of constantly comparing the many successful vs unsuccessful language learners to see what really makes them different, I can share another huge realisation with you today. Many of the major questions most people start asking themselves in language learning are, in my opinion, things that should be coming much later in the priority […]
The most comprehensive list of courses, communities, exchanges and more. This is the go-to page for the most comprehensive list of completely free online resources for learning and practising your languages.
Are you learning German? Or travelling to Germany for the holidays? Here’s how to say "Merry Christmas" (and more!) in German.
Travel update: no language tips in this (long) post! After travelling for about 7 years already, I thought I was immune to surprises, shocks and general wide-eyed awe. And then I came to Thailand! There’s nothing I can say about Thailand that hasn’t already been blogged, Lonely Planeted, Documentary Channelled, photographed or twittered a million […]
Meet Nikki Prša. Mom. Writer. Vlogger. Speaker of seven languages. Here’s how she does it.
What are you doing with your target language? Reading? Listening to Podcasts? Watching movies? That’s nice, but why should everyone else be having all the fun and leave you to be nothing more than an inactive spectator? It’s time to get active with your language and/or travels! This doesn’t just mean finding ways to meet […]
Of course you should learn Esperanto! Here are 10 places you can start. You can't go wrong with any one of these excellent Esperanto-learning resources.
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