I decided to make a quick video response to Benny Lewis’ latest mission to learn Mandarin Chinese to C1 fluency along with Steve Kaufmann’s subsequent video criticizing his attempt.

Did you know that the most common and erroneous way that a lot of us try to learn foreign language vocabulary, phrases and expressions is by repetition of the foreign language word/s and the translation in our native language?

I’ve spent a few hours this morning checking out the website and Youtube channel of Alexander Arguelles, one of the hyperpolyglot subjects of Michael Erard’s new book Babel No More.

Is it feasible that a purely fictional language like Tolkien Elvish could ever be made to become a spoken, living language? How do you learn to speak Elvish?

Are you one of these people who put off learning another language because you just don’t have enough time?

Well... after years of wanting to learn the Irish language and talking about it incessantly but never actually doing it, I’’m finally jumping into it this week.

These are purportedly the hardest languages for English speakers to learn due to numerous factors relating to their grammar, vocabulary and writing systems.

Harry Potter is the most famous children’s fantasy series with over 70 foreign language translations making it a perfect language learning tool.

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A lot of people are under the impression that to be fluent in another language means that you speak it as well as, or almost as well as, your native language.