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]
The Fail-Safe Way To Learn Foreign Language Vocabulary
Recently I started another course of university study in teaching/education (sucker for punishment!) which has been a great chance to delve deeper into memory and cognition. It’s one thing we covered in Applied Linguistics and I find the whole subject of memory to be such a fascinating thing – especially as a language learner since so much… [Read More]
How To Understand At Least 20% Of Every Conversation In A Foreign Language
This is a photo taken at the Volga River in Kazan, Russia recently camping with my Russian friends (none of whom speak any English!). *** That title sounds like a gimmick. Not to worry. I dislike gimmicks as much as you do but if you want some genuine advice on how to master at least 20% of every… [Read More]
