I’m making preparations to move to South Korea and learn to speak Korean in one year. Here’s how I plan to do it.

I read a lot of comments on forums and other blogs, and have received emails from people asking questions about the difficulty of Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

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  Grammar
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  Vocabulary

The issue that I want to raise here is whether or not a grammar first approach is actually advisable (or a grammar-at-all approach for that matter) when learning a language.

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  Grammar

Language learning days off should entail some kind of fun or leisurely exposure to the language, whether it’s target language music, watching a movie or even just using target language that you already know.

Like hacking in the conventional sense, learning a language is about breaking a code in order to understand hidden knowledge.

I’ve been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Hopefully I’ll start to get more time to devote to improving and maintaining this site in the coming weeks.

Spanish numbers (and counting) are incredibly simple and straightforward. Here I’ll show you everything you need to know about counting en español.

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  Vocabulary

I’ll tell you the main reason why your 3rd and 4th languages are easier to learn than your 2nd.

Learning Arabic or considering it? Here are 5 books I highly recommend you own...

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  Books