Immersion

The Egyptian wedding was awesome, and throughout the night I spoke a ton of Arabic with hardly any problems. Here are five takeaways from my experience.

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Want to learn the Irish language in Ireland? Here are some of the best centers, classes and resources in Ireland where 'An Ghaeilge' is alive and kicking.

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Leaving cultures that you've assimilated into, there's always a part of you that''s missing. Maintaining languages is easy - what about cultural identities?

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In this Paradise Pack review, I'll share my thoughts on achieving freedom to live a location independent lifestyle and whether or not the pack is worth it.

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You don't have to travel abroad to learn to speak Hebrew. Today I'll show you how to recreate a Hebrew language immersion environment at home.

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• Guest Posts

Ulpanim have many advantages for learning Hebrew. The aim of this post is not to discount this learning method. It’s to give a different perspective. We''ll challenge the view of those who say taking an ulpan course is the failproof method for learning Hebrew.

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If you’ve ever taken a language class and the teacher has asked you to roleplay visiting a doctor or attending a job interview, then you’ve seen task-based learning in action. Cooking in the target language is essentially the same type of lesson.

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Every time I have returned to Sweden, I've been pleasantly surprised by the improvement in my listening comprehension, speech and vocabulary. Here’s what I recommend doing if you want to improve your Swedish language skills outside of Sweden.

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My prior apathy about Russia aside, after just a few short months of living in Russia I have already been forced to seriously reconsider every Russian stereotype that I’d previously held.

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We've just returned from our time doing Arabic language immersion and working with Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Jordan.

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I came to a decision that I wanted to continue doing what I love - traveling, immersing myself in different languages - but at the same time sharing it all with a family of my own.

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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.

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Here are 10 reasons why Paris is not the best choice for doing French immersion if you really want to learn French well.

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Everything about my experience living and doing language immersion in Georgia was literally life-changing.

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I've decided this month as an experiment to see to what extent I can effectively and sufficiently emulate overseas language interaction at home.

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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.

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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.

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Learning Arabic in Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi isn't as hard as people say it is. I'll explain why this is.

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One of the main reasons for coming to Jordan was to meet and work with local people here to produce higher quality content for our Arabic resource, TalkInArabic.com – in particular for Jordanian, Palestinian and Iraqi.

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Learning languages just for the sake of convenient travel gets old really quickly but connecting with and learning about people is something that's always exciting no matter what.

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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.

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If you're learning a spoken dialect of Arabic then this will help you.

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Leading up to my flight here I was getting the same reaction from almost everyone - is Egypt really safe for foreigners?

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Cairo is one of the best and most rewarding places in the world for language immersion but it's easy to spend a long time here and never progress far at all.

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Today I'm going to share a few fairly random but very interesting things with you that I learned during my language immersion stay in Russia.

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Today I'm going to share with you what I do to get the most out of a language immersion trip and save myself a tonne of money in the process.

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Last year your votes got this blog into the Top 25 Language Learning Blogs so it'd be great if you could do it again this year.

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Russia is already proving to be one of the most rewarding language immersions I've ever done.

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Today I can finally share my new language challenge with all of you. I'm currently en route to Russia for a brand new immersion experience that I'm very excited about.

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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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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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This week marks three months that I’ve been living and working in South Korea determined to become fluent in the Korean language.

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Brilliance in foreign language learning depends on you striving as much as possible to 'become' a person of that society.

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With today's post comes my very first progress video in Korean - of course it's really slow and full of mistakes but I'm determined to show you the 'warts and all' stages as I improve in the language.

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Today I've decided to share a few lessons with you that I learned from almost marrying a girl in Egypt - a girl who only spoke Arabic. No English.

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G'day from Korea! :) I thought I'd share a very quick 'first week in Korea' update with a video of my tiny apartment for anyone interested.

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Oideas Gael is probably the best known and most reputable program in Ireland for adult learners of Irish. Here's my review and experience taking the course.

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Here's a quick update on what's been happening on my trip to the Gaeltacht (one of the areas of Ireland where the Irish language is spoken) so far.

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I'll be heading to Ireland from Australia to catch the last week-long Irish immersion course at Oideas Gael, located in a village called Gleann Cholm Cille.

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• Endangered Languages

Today I'm going to share with you 8 important things you should do on an immersion trip abroad if you want to come home fluent in a foreign language.

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The TLG program gives you the ultimate language learning challenge (Georgian) and will give you an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime, cultural experience.

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