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April 2013 (2)
19: The Most Balanced Rosetta Stone Review You’ll Ever Read (9)
06: The Good and Ugly Kinds of Learning Perfectionism (4)
March 2013 (2)
16: 19 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Learning A Foreign Language (14)
10: Language Learning And Social Risk-Taking Part 2: Talk! (2)
February 2013 (3)
24: Things Every New Korean Language Learner Should Be Aware Of (9)
17: Effective Strategy For Making Foreign Language Vocab Stick (11)
07: Review: The Gaeilge Gan Stró Books and Ranganna.com Irish Language Course (1)
January 2013 (3)
23: Guest Post: How To Succeed At Learning A Foreign Language (7)
20: How To Keep Smiling Through The ‘Bad Days’ Of Language Learning (2)
10: Negotiation In Language Learning: The Refining Process (16)
December 2012 (4)
29: Reflecting On The Most Popular Blog Posts Of 2012 (9)
23: Learning Korean To Fluency – My 3 Month Progress Update (3)
16: ‘Experience’ Is The Best Christmas Gift For A Language Learner (7)
08: How I Was Transformed Into A Success Story By A Profound 2,300 Year Old Piece Of Wisdom (12)
November 2012 (3)
26: Why The Best Language Learners Focus On More Than Just Language (20)
11: Review: Talk To Me In Korean Lesson Books (With Video) (6)
04: How To Go From Basic Fluency To Mastery In A Foreign Language Using The Chunking Method (13)
October 2012 (4)
27: Guest Post: Aaron Myers Shares On How To Learn The Turkish Language (2)
20: The Uncomfortable Truth: Social Risk-Takers Are Better Language Learners (27)
16: 3 Week Korean Language Progress Video Plus Advice On Learning Foreign Alphabets (7)
03: 12 Lessons Learned Proposing To An Egyptian Girl Who Only Spoke Arabic (38)
September 2012 (3)
24: Update On My First Week In Korea With A Video Of My Apartment (12)
13: New Language Challenge Begins: Fluency In Korean (23)
04: Pursuing The Irish Language – One Bloke’s Journey From Australia To Ireland (13)
August 2012 (2)
22: Language Is More Than Just Input And Output (5)
09: Gaeltacht Immersion After 8 Months Of Learning Irish (11)
July 2012 (4)
31: You Don’t Need To Study Grammar To Learn A Foreign Language (43)
15: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit – In The Irish Language! (6)
11: Review: French In A Day With Elisabeth Smith iPhone App (2)
04: How To Install Learning With Texts On Your Own Computer (30)
June 2012 (3)
24: Creating Opportunities To Speak: Cold-Calling (13)
17: Reflecting On My Progress With Irish Over The Last 6 Months (8)
05: Aussie English: The Best Variety Of English In The World (10)
May 2012 (5)
27: 8 Important Things You Should Do On An Immersion Trip Abroad (23)
18: Review: New Berlitz Phrasebooks With Reader-Suggested Content (2)
11: 5 Tips To Avoid Shitty Situations As An ESL Teacher (6)
06: Word Play: Hyperpolyglots On 16×9 – The Bigger Picture (27)
03: Learning Multiple Languages At The Same Time (23)
April 2012 (5)
29: Jumping Into The Korean Language (11)
24: Review: Bitesize Irish Gaelic (6)
16: Arabic and Hebrew: Why Semitic Languages Are Not Difficult (43)
09: Timothy Doner, Jerry Dai And The Issue Of Grammar (14)
06: Learning When You Don’t Have The Energy For It (0)
March 2012 (9)
31: New Language Video Challenge Topic: Anecdotes (4)
30: The One Thing You Can’t Bullshit In Foreign Language Learning (35)
27: Review: Berlitz’ Earworms Musical Brain Trainer (9)
22: Defining Language Hacking: Lessons Learned From Hacking Chinese (10)
21: Irish Gaeilge Video Update (13)
13: Reflections Of A Visual-Spatial Language Learner (11)
07: Happy Irish Language Week! Seachtain Na Gaeilge Shona Daoibh! (3)
03: Learning Arabic? Here Are 5 Books That I Highly Recommend You Own (36)
02: Short And Sweet Study Periods (4)
February 2012 (8)
27: 21 Completely Random, Bizarre and Insane Experiences Of An Ardent Language Learner (11)
23: An Online Community Of ‘Seriously Supportive’ Language Learners (1)
22: Foreign Language Music And Interlinear Lyrics (1)
18: Why Disliking Learning Languages Is Not A Good Thing (14)
12: Language Mastery – Essential Books That Cover Naughty Words And Slang (6)
08: 12 Prolific Language Learning Bloggers You Should Follow (42)
04: Update On The Video Language Challenge (6)
01: How To Understand At Least 20% Of Every Conversation In A Foreign Language (18)
January 2012 (9)
28: The Matrix – Spanish Word Comparisons (6)
24: Why I Love Rhinospike and Forvo (And How They Differ) (4)
20: Language Challenges: Show Us Your Stuff! (7)
17: Life-Changing, Eye-Opening Foreign Language Encounters (8)
13: Get Your Foreign Language Pronunciation Right From The Start (15)
08: The Most Moving Language-Related Video I’ve Ever Seen (6)
07: Benny Lewis’ Mandarin Mission And Steve Kaufmann’s Response (26)
06: Using Feelings And Senses To Learn Foreign Languages (6)
05: Just A Few Changes (2)
December 2011 (15)
30: Language Shadowing: A Superior Learning Method (4)
27: 7 Essential Characteristics Of A Good, Strategic Language Learner (1)
23: The Year Ahead (4)
23: The Hobbit: Speaking Tolkien Elvish (3)
21: Quick Tips To Maximize Limited Language Learning Time (3)
19: Making Language Learning An Enjoyable Challenge (1)
15: Learn The Irish Language Before St. Patrick’s Day – My Challenge (4)
14: 7 Serious Questions To Ask Before Buying A Language Product (1)
13: How To Improve Your Foreign Language Comprehension (10)
11: The Everyday Language Learner’s Comprehensive Guide To Getting Started: A Review (4)
09: Don’t Learn A Language For Your Career Until You Read This (3)
07: Foreign Language Book Bargain Shopping (1)
05: Learning Spanish? This Is Guaranteed To Impress You (5)
04: Superb Tips For Passive Language Learning (2)
02: It’s Unusual To Be Monolingual (0)
November 2011 (9)
30: Learning Languages From Harry Potter (4)
29: Connecting With Foreign Language Communities At Home (1)
24: Free Video Language Resources (0)
22: Fluency In A Language – What Does That Mean Exactly? (9)
21: Incidental Acquisition (0)
14: Georgian: A Rare Language Learning Opportunity (6)
12: The Defense Language Institute – An Awesome Language Tool (5)
06: A Quick Tip For Mastering Foreign Vocabulary (5)
01: Learning Languages With Purpose (3)
October 2011 (1)
14: The Inner Voice – Thinking In Another Language (0)
September 2011 (1)
13: How ‘Chunking’ Speeds Up Your Language Learning (3)
August 2011 (1)
20: Welcome to the Mezzofanti Guild! (1)
- May 2013 (1)
- 05: Are There Easy Languages and Hard Languages? (12)
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