As you all know, my wife and I recently welcomed our son into the world (first child!) and I’m already talking with other polyglot parents to gain more insight into strategies for raising young kids to be bilingual. Today Shannon Kennedy who blogs over at Eurolinguiste is sharing some of what she’s been doing and resources she’s using… [Read More]
How To Live A ‘Language Immersion Lifestyle’ And Work From Anywhere
UPDATE: The Paradise Pack is back again for 2017 (for one week only). More info here. If you could pack your bags and go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go? What language would you learn if you had complete freedom to travel? And free time. I mentioned recently in a blog… [Read More]
Why I Don’t Recommend Michel Thomas (Review)
I was recently sent a few copies of the Michel Thomas Total Arabic and Perfect Arabic courses from the good folks over at Hodder Education in exchange for an honest review. This is a product that I’ve wanted to look at for a long time as MT is still a very popular course among language learners. Michel… [Read More]
How To Stop Anxiety When Speaking A Foreign Language
I had an interesting thing happen to me recently that prompted me to write this today. I was out walking here in California and came across a Lebanese food truck on the side of the road. I thought to myself: “This is a great opportunity to practice some Arabic and meet some new people.” I stood… [Read More]
How To Tell The Difference Between European And Brazilian Portuguese
Today we have a guest post from Lucia Leite who runs a blog called Lingholic. Lucia’s from Portugal herself and in this post she’ll share some interesting info on some of the differences between the Portuguese varieties spoken in Portugal and Brazil. Over to you, Lucia. *** Portuguese and Brazilians do not agree on many things… [Read More]
Results Of My Arduous At-Home Language Immersion Experiment
A while back, I shared an idea I had for an experiment to try and replicate (as much as possible) in-country language immersion at home over Skype. My goal was to truly maximize the potential of online immersion and measure its results. ‘Online’ or ‘Skype’ immersion is thrown around a lot but I think it needs to… [Read More]
HUGE Life Update + New Talk In Arabic Site Coming Soon
G’day all! You might remember that back in July last year I shared two huge updates with you: 1) I got married. 2) We found out we were going to be parents for the first time. I was beyond excited to share these personal announcements with my long-time readers here and got some really touching well-wishes… [Read More]
Balanced, Honest and Detailed RussianPod101 Review
RussianPod101 NOTE: I highly recommend this online audio course as another course alternative for Russian. *** UPDATE (Feb 2017): Since initially writing this review, RussianPod101.com has significantly improved in terms of its overall quality and content amount. They’ve since produced A LOT of great new video lessons with their instructor Katya and the user interface has… [Read More]
Why Language Learning App Innovation Has Peaked
Almost every week I get emailed by new startups asking me to review sites and mobile apps related to language learning. They’re always the ‘latest and greatest’ thing. The problem is that no matter how impressive a lot of new ‘innovative’ apps and websites look and sound, I find that most of the time the… [Read More]
How To Speak A Foreign Language Without An Accent
Today we have another guest post by Danielle Swisher. Danielle has published five books including Murder on O’Hollow’s Eve and Other Short Stories (which is a collection of short stories inspired by her life in France, Boston, Everglades City, Florida and South Carolina), and a poetry collection on love and loss called When You Were Here…. [Read More]
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