Portuguese In 15 Hours: Pick Up Another Language Using Lexical Similarity
Language learning shouldn’t be a life sentence. Learn how to pick up another language in a matter of hours using lexical similarity and comprehensible input
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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.
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.
Narrow Listening: How to fix your “I don’t understand natives” problem
Narrow listening is a top strategy for improving your aural skills. This post will provide you with guidelines to start practicing it on your own.
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
How to Understand spoken language better: 7 atypical shortcuts
One rainy evening I sat down to watch The Intouchables in French with the full confidence that I would understand every single word. By the time I had a solid B1 level in French and no problem with understanding French vloggers on YouTube. But that evening it appeared to me that I unlearned all my … Read more How to Understand spoken language better: 7 atypical shortcuts