With over 1.5 billion native and non-native speakers, English is the most widely spoken language in the world today. English is most widely spoken as a first language in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. There are tons of online language courses out there for learning English, […]
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I’ve been learning Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian over the last year and boy has it been interesting to see and hear the differences between these 3 East Slavic languages. Interested in learning Russian? Read our honest RussianPod101 review. As you should have noticed from the video, Ukrainian and Belarusian are a lot more similar
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italki uses the slogan ‘Become Fluent in Any Language’ on its website. So how did I use it to become conversational in more than 10 languages? In the video below, I’ll run you through my experience with iTalki. You can get $10 starter credit towards your first language lesson by clicking here! I really encourage you
I’ve been traveling and learning languages intensively for more than 10 years in which I’ve learnt over 10 languages. But Russian has definitely proven to be the most challenging. So how did I finally manage to learn Russian? In this article I’ll outline the materials I used and the scoop on how I really learnt
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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
