So you want to be a translator? There’s a lot more to being a translator than just knowing a language really well.

Do we gradually forget languages? What happened to the foreign languages we learned in school? Are they lost and can we pick them up again quickly if they are?

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  Children

Picking up a new language should begin with a willingness to cast aside one’s own cultural identity temporarily and wear a new one.

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  Immersion

Are you learning Levantine or Iraqi Arabic? Here’s my advice on the best resources currently available for these dialects.

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  Books

Scott and a friend have just recently started a pretty inspiring project of spending a whole year travelling to 4 countries using only the local languages -- no English for a whole year.

I’ve been learning the Korean language now for 11 months and this a quick progress video of me speaking at my current level. Definitely getting better!

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  Immersion

Today I want to convince you just how much of a positive difference it can make to your learning success when you go public about what you’re doing.

You will never, ever learn to speak a foreign language properly without being a sociable person. Period. Full stop. End of story.

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  Speaking

The Korean language isn’t as hard as you may think it is and here’s 10 reasons why.

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  Grammar
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  Vocabulary