I’ve spent many years learning Russian. It wasn’t such an easy experience. I made a lot of mistakes and invested a significant amount of time and money. But now I am reaping the fruits of my linguistic labor. In video 1 below, I explain the impact it’s had on my life. And now in […]
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What is Esperanto? Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world created by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof in 1873. Zamenhof was born in this town, Białystok, Poland, which at the time was located in the Russian Empire. Białystok at the time was a mix of Polish, Yiddish, Russian, Belarusian and German. Zamenhof was
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Lingq is a language learning platform created by my friend and hyperpolyglot, Steve Kaufmann. Steve is a big fan of the pioneering research of Dr. Steven Krashen and his comprehensible input theory. This basically means that one needs a lot of input (listening and reading) in the new language in order to make effective progress.
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Speechling is a pronunciation app/website, which aims to help you nail your pronunciation in 6 languages (April 2018 – English, Russian, French, Spanish, German and Chinese). I tried out Speechling in Russian as that was the language where I thought it would be most effective for me to test it. My current level of Russian
This review was updated August, 2020. The Mimic Method offers language courses which aim to help your pronunciation in one of the following nine languages: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, English, Chinese, Italian and Japanese. When I first reviewed the Mimic Method in August, 2018, I went through the Elemental Sounds courses for each of
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I sometimes wonder how my life, worldview, and Spanish level would be different if I had not been in my gym class, at 1:15, catching up to my friends on that fateful water break. What if my schedule was different, and had never known that a vibrant, almost underground Spanish community existed, right in the
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In this article, I’m going to interview Yulia, the mother of Bella, a 4-year old girl who speaks 7 languages. How many years did Bella speak? How old was Bella when she first spoke a foreign language? In your opinion, what prompted Bella to speak different languages at such a young age? Bella began to
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Many teachers feel that social media is a barrier to their students’ learning. However, the ease of use and accessibility mean that it’s actually an excellent tool for learning. It’s all down to just how you use it in your studies. Here’s how you can use social media to teach and learn another language. Everyone
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