Vocabooster Ukrainian is a new course from LanguageBoost. It promises to teach you the first 600 words in your new language. I recently tried out Vocabooster as part of my Learn Ukrainian Mission in Lviv, Ukraine. So I went through Vocabooster and released a video about using it during my Learn Ukrainian Mission. So what was my […]
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I first started learning the Italian language over 10 years ago and got to a very basic level in standard Italian before going to study in Bologna for one year. When I arrived I was taken aback by the number and variety of dialects spoken on a daily basis by Italians of which I struggled
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As an avid language learner and superpolyglot, I find pronunciation to be my weakest point. In particular, hearing the various sounds that differ from those found in my native language, English, had proven elusive for me when I first started learning new languages. My first foreign language was French. In the beginning, I was tormented
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German and Dutch are 2 languages from the Germanic family and I’ve had the pleasure of learning them both of them in recent years. I’ve also lived in both Germany (Munich) and the Netherlands (Utrecht) for a little over a year each so I’ve had more or less the same in situ exposure to both.
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Me encanta viajar a Italia y a España (y en América Latina, por supuesto) y ya viví en Bolonia en Italia, donde aprendí italiano. El año después de haber aprendido italiano, aprendí español por vivir cerca de un barrio latino en Washington, DC en los Estados Unidos. Después de haber aprendido las dos lenguas en una sucesión rápida,
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Io amo viaggiare in Italia e Spagna (e in America Latina, ovviamente) e ho vissuto a Bologna in Italia, dove ho imparato italiano. L’anno dopo aver imparato l’italiano, ho imparato lo spagnolo vivendo nei pressi di un barrio latino a Washington, DC negli Stati Uniti. Avendo imparato le due lingue in rapida successione, conosco davvero quanto simili e
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Studying grammar has never been a favorite task of mine when it comes to language learning. Hundreds of hours spent in an Irish classroom having grammar rules drilled into me (with little tangible results) completely killed my enthusiasm for this part of language learning. Yet studying a new language’s grammar to an encyclopedic level is traditionally viewed
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Switzerland is a landlocked country in the middle of Europe with some of the most beauty scenery that the continent has to offer. In terms of languages, the country has 4 official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. In Switzerland, around 1.8 million people or 22.5% of the population speak French as their first language, mainly
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