I was doing a course on linguistics by the Teaching Company and I realized how much these courses have really given me and continue to give me so I decided to make a blogpost about it.
Learning languages is just one thing. What we can do and, I believe, what we should do, is to learn everything: physics, philosophy, biology, astronomy, you name it. There is so much information and so much interesting things to learn and there is something about …

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Since I became interested in making this site and this blog, I have looked at what quite a lot of other bloggers are doing. I have grown to like some of the blogs and I have subscribed to quite a few of them. I thought I would list some of the blogs I am subscribed to and provide short descriptions of them.
I will not list all of the blogs on my list now because that would be too large of …

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This is just a test blog post which is still to be edited. Eventually this has to be incorporated in the labs. I would greatly appreciate if you helped me improve this list and left comments here or preferably in a topic I decicated for this on the forums. There is a dense printer-friendly version of this here. Thanks!
The whole philosophy of I Kinda Like Languages is based on making courses which enable people to use the language in speaking …

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Ziad Fazah is supposedly the worlds greatest living polyglot who can converse in 58 languages. That’s the story I had heard. Personally, I have never met Ziad but I heard he wrote books about languages and he spoke to some people in different languages. That was what I used to know.
That was until I saw this video (in Spanish):

Summary of the video: he gets asked a bunch of questions in a bunch of languages and he doesn’t answer any while …

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This is a great moment because I have been waiting to write this for the last 3 months or so. Probably more. Also because I did not know whether I would make it. I believe I know enough Portuguese now to say that I have made it so that’s why I’m writing this now. I have managed to learn Portuguese in 5 months and I am going to tell you how I did it here.
Some background
First of all, I should …

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