How to Learn A Language By Watching TV: A Must-Read Guide for Addicted and Ambitious
You’ve heard about it: watching TV can help you to learn another language faster. There are 4 arguments for, 4 against, and 2 methods to do it right.
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Comprehensible Input: Why Immersion Doesn’t Work and How To Fix It
Immersion is overrated. Living in another country won’t do the trick without enough comprehensible input. Read on to learn what it is and where to get it.
Down The Rabbit Hole: How to learn French with Youtube
YouTube is a best free language learning tool you can find. In this post, I share my ways to learn French with YouTube without falling down the rabbit hole.
Double Input: How to Improve Foreign Language Skills
If there were just one thing you could do to improve your foreign language skills it would be using the Double Input strategy. Here’s how.
How Cognates in Language Learning Can Save You Months
Using cognates in languages is the best shortcut to more efficient vocabulary learning. Here, I tell how to apply this strategy to any language you learn
How to Learn More Vocabulary with Narrow Reading
You have probably heard that in order to expand your vocabulary in a foreign language you have to read a lot. You might have even tried reading stuff in your target language… just to realize that your vocabulary is not very expandable this way. Yup. Reading random things doesn’t really work. But, hey, don’t get … Read more How to Learn More Vocabulary with Narrow Reading
Reading in a Foreign Language: 3 Neuroscience Hacks to Better Learning
Reading in a foreign language is not that simple as it sounds. On initial stages, your target language literally stands between you and the book, making it hard, boring and incomrehensible. But there’s a way to make your reading task easier and actually more effective. That’s exactly what I’m going to share with you today: … Read more Reading in a Foreign Language: 3 Neuroscience Hacks to Better Learning
21 century: Is it still possible to learn a language by reading?
There’s a link between reading and language skills. And this link is so strong that many 20th century polyglots were able to learn a language by reading books, whether they had previous knowledge of their target language or started from the zero. The problem is that this technique, perfectly working for our kind a hundred … Read more 21 century: Is it still possible to learn a language by reading?
How to learn vocabulary effectively: the power of context
Average adult knows 60 000 words but only 10% of them is a result of deliberate teaching. The rest 90% of words we know and understand comes from oral or written context. Master this technique (incoded in the scientific world as Context Vocabulary Acquisition) and you will find the answer on how to learn vocabulary effectively. And, … Read more How to learn vocabulary effectively: the power of context
Translate songs: step-by-step guide to learning with music
Music is a power driving us to explore the languages we don’t know. And you can use this power to accelerate your language learning! How? Just start to translate songs. Music doesn’t know language barriers. It can make you mumble the lyrics on the language you don’t know and feel the meaning without translating a … Read more Translate songs: step-by-step guide to learning with music