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 […]
Skimming and Scanning: What’s the difference?
Reading StrategiesWhen it comes to reading in a second language, strategies are every learner’s best friend. Making sure you start off with an engaging text that contains words you […]
7 Idioms for the perfect French romance
French. The language of love. Paris is the most visited city in the world year after year and I’m pretty sure a crazy little thing called love has […]
What the Irish can teach you about English
There are plenty of things we do know about the Irish: they live in a country full of sprawling green countryside, they’ve produced some of the world’s best […]
How to learn Arabic words– tips from our language learner
Why did you choose to learn Arabic? Actually, I was originally just learning French. But because I have many friends from North Africa, it bothered me that I […]
Why French slang is the best!
Anyone who has studied abroad or visited France knows that the last thing you want to do is walk into a bar and alienate yourself by using awkward […]
Choosing the right test to measure your vocabulary
Vocabulary in a second language seems like a relatively straightforward entity to assess. You either know a word or you don’t, right? Unfortunately, that’s not really the case. There […]
What’s the best foreign language to learn?
A few weeks ago I received an email from a friend asking which foreign language his daughter should learn. She was entering high school and had several options, including Spanish, French and Chinese. He […]
Why is it so difficult to remember words in another language?
You’ve probably only encountered a word like the English ‘platypus’ a handful of times in your life, but that doesn’t mean you initially had trouble remembering it or […]
Teaching words with multiple meanings
A word doesn’t always have just one meaning. From time to time, native speakers and language learners must contend with words that have multiple meanings. It could be a word that […]
Is English a hard language to learn?
There are more second language speakers of English in the world than there are native speakers– that means a lot of people have been successful learning the English […]
Is Portuguese a hard language to learn?
Portuguese and English: One happy language family People interested in language learning are always asking me: “Is Portuguese a hard language to learn?” My answer remains the same: […]