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Category: Languages
How To Learn Spanish Fast : Tips
First 4 Weeks: Pronunciation and Survival Phrases Spanish is a phonetic language, whose alphabet is the mostly the same as English. This means that many of the sounds you know from English carry over to Spanish. Some sounds do not carry over, however, and in order to not sound like a dumb gringo, it is […]
5 Ways You Are Slowing Your Progress To Fluency
The past few weeks I have been studying Spanish pretty hard. It really feels like working out. I literally feel tired after an hour of intensive study. My method has mainly been the Pimsleur audio program and LiveMocha courses in Spanish, and occasionally I have a Skype conversation with a native Spanish speaker. I am […]
Three Powerful Hacks To Learn Any Language
The more I learn about learning, the more I realize how much of a role psychological factors play in whether or not you learn something. As such, if you are trying to learn a new language, it may be a better approach to think of ways you can “hack” your psychology for bigger gains. Here […]
Practical Hacking Plan to learn Portuguese fast
I need to learn Portuguese fast. I don’t have time for dilly-dally, clicking pictures, or time-consuming, low-yield efforts at learning the language. I need a plan to hack it, and hack it fast. Of all the writing on learning languages, there still seems to be lacking a practical layout of how to hack a language. […]
How Fast Can You Really Learn Spanish?
As you may know, I am attempting to learn Spanish in preparation for my trip to Colombia. I have really been working hard at it during the last 2 weeks… trying to avoid things that slow me down, and often studying over an hour a day. Now, if you think about it, an hour a […]
Fluency vs. Proficiency (And Why It Matters)
If you read this blog, you probably know I have been learning Spanish. It has been my first attempt to learn a foreign language in a functional, life-enhancing way, which would enable me to play, live, and do business comfortably in Latin America (among other things). I’ve discovered some things that work, and some things […]
Language learning, vocabulary and Vygostky
Here’s the final post in our five part series to guide you through some of the key terms you need in your language learning vocabulary. T is for Travel and Teaching One of the best ways to stay motivated to learn a new language is through travel. People, place, culture, they are all experiences you […]
Masculine and Feminine words in French
Have you ever noticed that the French have a funny way of interchanging le and la depending on what they are discussing? The waiter may bring you le café but when it comes time for dessert you’ll be ordering la glace. One of the first thing you discover when studying French is that all nouns have a gender […]
Learning Hebrew words, our learner of the week shares his tips
Why did you choose to learn Hebrew? I was accepted for an internship with a tech start-up in Tel Aviv and decided that learning Hebrew would go a long way toward helping me fit into Israeli society. I firmly believe that learning a country’s language is not only an amazing intellectual and linguistic endeavor, but […]