Family and ancestry can be one of the strongest motivators to learn a foreign language. Almost 5 years ago (wow it’s already been that long!), I made the decision to start learning Irish (Gaeilge) when I was still living in Australia. It was honestly one of the best things I’ve ever done and it literally changed… [Read More]
How Much Vocab Do You Actually Need To Speak A Foreign Language?
Today we have a guest post by Marta Krzeminska from LinguaLift (an excellent online learning system that’s currently available for French, Chinese Mandarin, Russian and Japanese). Marta’s a language coach and a language explorer. She’s known around the internet as a speaker of Toki Pona – a language of few words – and in her non-language related pursuits, she experiments… [Read More]
GermanPod101 Review: A Brutally Honest And Detailed Look
GermanPod101 UPDATE (Feb 2017): GermanPod101 has made significant improvements over the past few months which I’ve outlined below. *** I recently shared the results of some ancestry research I did of my family through Ancestry.com. After a lot of digging, I was able to pinpoint a village in Germany where my father’s side came from stretching back… [Read More]
Brutally Honest Rocket German Review (2017)
I announced not too long ago that after doing some ancestry research on my family and finding strong links to Germany, my interest in learning the German language really piqued. Learning German quickly became important and personal to me knowing my family’s history. So naturally, I started to look into the best resources for learning German…. [Read More]
How Foreign Language Immersion Changes Your Perspective On The World
I’m deeply saddened by the horrific, senseless murder of 21 Coptic Egyptians in Libya this week. The very first time I lived in Egypt over 12 years ago, I was welcomed by and stayed with a Coptic community in a small village in Upper Egypt (that’s me visiting their church above). They’re some of the… [Read More]
