92 Books Later: How To Learn A Language By Reading
How many books would you need you read in order to learn a language through reading? How much time would it take? Read on to learn the answers
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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.
Where and How To Find Foreign Language Books: 5 Methods
Reading in a target language in a great learning strategy. But its success largely depends on resources you use: the books.In this post, I share my ways to find books in a language I learn.
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.
Readlang And What Makes It The Best Language Learning Tool Ever
“Whenever I am asked how I was able to succeed in many languages in a relatively short period of time, I always make a bow in spirit to the source of all knowledge: books. My advice to learners can thus be expressed in one word: read!” This quote originates from one of the most famous … Read more Readlang And What Makes It The Best Language Learning Tool Ever
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
Why Beelinguapp is better than flashcards?
The more time I spend learning languages online, the more I’m getting convinced that software created by language learners for language learners work the best. For whatever reason. And this is exactly the story of Beelinguapp: an atypical language learning app for language hackers and bookworms in one person. The story of Beelinguapp: 2017 “kickstart” … Read more Why Beelinguapp is better than flashcards?
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?