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Let's learn some Arabic proverbs! In this list, you'll learn some of the most important (common and uncommon) Arabic proverbs in different dialects.

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Here you'll find a detailed list of some of the best and most popular Arabic boy names along with their audio pronunciation and meaning/etymology.

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Here you'll find a detailed list of some of the best and most popular Arabic girl names along with their audio pronunciation and meaning/etymology.

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Today I’m unveiling The Mezzofanti Guild (version 3.0), completely redesigned and redeveloped from the ground up.

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Within 6 months, my aim is to be able to converse fairly comfortably with an Icelandic native speaker.

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Carefully timed, prepared and edited language progress videos do not truthfully reflect the reality of your current skill level.

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I'm on the lookout for some language learning/polyglot superstars who are passionate about sharing their experiences and good at writing creative content.

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How people engage with blogs, channels and social media looks almost nothing like what it did when I began blogging about language learning eight years ago.

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The Michel Thomas Method might explain a language as a concept in a way that you understand, but languages are not concepts to be grasped.

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This is really the first time in human history that we can honestly say we've dominated every corner of our planet. We can look at any square inch of ground in any country on any continent at any time of the day with a simple swipe of our finger.

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I'm long overdue for an update on what's been happening recently with my language project and plans for 2018. Also, big news.

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I was looking at my YouTube channel yesterday and realized it's been over two years since I last recorded a video. Two years! So here it is.

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Being in this industry for nearly a decade, I’ve come across a number of great free resources for language learners moving to another country.

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We recently started a contract with some high-end designers and developers to give TalkInArabic.com a brand new look and to respond to feedback.

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The records I found through Ancestry.com were so detailed that I was able to trace most of my father's line back to the 1600's to a little cluster of villages in Germany.

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I've been receiving emails, private messages and social media comments lately asking where I am and why I seem to be so out of action. Well I have been less present online sadly it's true but for good reasons. :)

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The sooner people realize that it's the intellectual 'world-fixers' who are causing most of the world's problems in the first place, the better off we'll all be.

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The better you learn languages the first time, the more deeply engraved in your memory they become and harder to forget later on.

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I do know that a lot of you have been following my adventures for years now so I want to share this big news with you.

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One of things I'm most thankful for is how much I've matured and grown as a person because of my overseas adventures over many years. Here are 6 reasons why.

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It dawned on me recently that I haven''t done a language mission on this blog for quite some time (it''s been well over a year since my Russian mission).

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Here's a list of some of the most profilic and authoritative bloggers on languages and language learning.

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Listen to a podcast chat that I had with John Fotheringham of the Language Mastery blog about myself, the languages I've learned, this blog, some of my own strategies for learning and of course, TalkInArabic.com.

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The gym is one of the best places to meet new people and practice the language when you move to a new foreign country.

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One of the best ways to measure progress in a foreign language is with topics and themes since you can clearly see whether or not you're able to talk about something or not.

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It's so easy to get worried about not reaching targets that you miss many of the little joyful discoveries along the way.

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Scott and a friend have just recently started a pretty inspiring project of spending a whole year travelling to 4 countries using only the local languages -- no English for a whole year.

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In your mind, what does a hard language look like? Is there such a thing as an easy language? Or is this just a false dichotomy?

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G'day all! Today I’m going to share a few of the most popular (and often controversial) language learning posts I’ve written this year in case you missed them.

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Today I want to share a simple yet profound piece of wisdom that I came across 10 years ago which radically changed me as a learner, especially with languages.

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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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In just 3 short days I'll be boarding a plane to what will be likely be my new home and travel base for the next 12 months - South Korea.

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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.

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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.

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I wanted to write a nice little motivational piece today but I thought I'd share a few random, bizarre and insane cultural experiences I've had with you instead.

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Want to never successfully learn a language and also ruin your life in the process? Then don't do this.

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Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom is still entirely relevant and hard-hitting for people interested in language revival and specifically Irish.

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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.

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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.

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

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Here's an up-to-date list of the most spoken languages in the world including native and non-native speakers, including info you probably didn't know.

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