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]
10 Reasons Why You Should Do French Immersion Outside Paris
Today we have a guest post by Danielle Swisher, a political science major who has a blog called The Traveler Next Door. 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),… [Read More]
To What Extent Can I Emulate Overseas Language Immersion At Home?
One criticism I often get from people is that my language learning results come down to my ability to travel so much. Unhindered travel = easy immersion which somehow = quick success. My last post was about ‘why Russian isn’t that difficult‘ and as always, some of the responses I received were along the lines… [Read More]
10 Reasons Why The Russian Language Isn’t That Difficult
Today I’m going to convince you that Russian is actually far easier to learn than you’ve been led to believe. It’s not (or at least doesn’t have to be) a near-impossible undertaking. A year or so ago I moved to a small town in Russia and lived immersed in the language having learned almost nothing… [Read More]
Back From Georgia (Country Not The State) + [VIDEO]
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გამარჯობა! We just recently made it back to Qatar from Tbilisi. What a trip! 🙂 As I shared with you recently, I headed back to Georgia this month for a visit and to catch up with my Georgian friends who I stayed with while I was there on the TLG program almost 5 years ago… [Read More]
Back To Georgia For More Language Immersion… Finally
გამარჯობა (‘Hi’ in Georgian :)) Next week I’m heading back to one of my favorite parts of the world again to catch up with old friends, get in some adventure and of course, revisit the language. I’m so excited about it that I decided to make a video post so here it is. One… [Read More]
Skype For Language Learning – Why You Need Less Of It
Do you really want to immerse yourself in a foreign language but travelling and being ‘location-independent’ isn’t a viable option for you? Most people aren’t really able to travel around on a whim to learn languages due to work and family commitments. Just about anybody who lives in a foreign language context is bound to pick up… [Read More]
Update: Levantine and Iraqi Arabic Mission in Jordan
Greetings from Amman, Jordan! يعطيك العافية 🙂 We’ve been here this week working on some great new content for TalkInArabic.com in various dialects (mainly Levantine and Iraqi Arabic this time), exploring the region a bit and meeting some amazing new people. I can’t believe that after all the times I’ve been to the Middle East… [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]
Here’s What Language Immersion Is (And What It Isn’t)
I’ve talked quite a bit about how the words fluency and advanced are the most misunderstood and misused words by language learners and blogging “experts”. Well immersion is another one. Funnily enough, these words remind me of words like fascism in the media; they get thrown around so much these days that nobody has any… [Read More]
