I once read a blog by a guy who wrote that at the start of his new job in his boss gave him a task to learn how hybrid security works in the stock market and give a lecture on that to a group of his co-workers. This blogger told that he really liked these tactics because he had to become really good at the subject in order to be able to talk about it and that pushed him to …

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In this post I am going to prove to you that it is a better to learn a bit of many different languages than to learn one or a few languages until fluency if you care about understanding what words are being said in the world in general. There is a lot of statistics written about it but it’s just common sense. Let me illustrate it for you in a way to that you can make sure of it …

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I am not sure about you but one of my main motivations for learning languages is travel. While it’s fine to use the language online or have a pen-friend (I’ve never really had one), what’s the use of knowing a language if you never actually speak it?
Speaking a language in its country is pretty awesome, though. I have tried speaking the language  (in probably that order in time)  in Germany (I speak poor German), France, Italy (Italian not too good either), Portugal, …

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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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I have had some conceptions about language learning but lately as I have been reading some more blogs and resources about that topic, I have come across some confronting ideas which brought these issues to my attention and now I am not sure which one to believe. I think it is important for everybody to think about these things and not take them for granted so, in this post, I’m going to mention both the controversial issues in language learning …

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7. It is possible to learn a foreign language overnight using some secret tricks.
Sorry, no. A language is a lot more than grammar and vocabulary. It’s also expressions, sayings and all this kind of stuff. It is not possible to learn a language that fast unless you are able to somehow upload it to your brain (let me know when you are able to do that). Some methods for learning a language are clearly better than others (that’s what a …

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I was reading Jason’s blog called “Beyond Bounds” which I found reflecting back at this post of mine and I came up with this post about motivation to learn where he talks about courage (P.S. Jason has some other interesting stuff on his blog, check it out). He writes:
A new language means a new way of thinking; this is pretty much the definition. New ways of thinking scare people, because their comfortable lifestyles, morality, and conventional wisdoms get challenged on …

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I find two things to be most effective: getting introduced to the language and then practicing it. Some people could say it’s just practice all the way but I think that knowing some things before you dive into speaking can save you a lot of time. Here are some of those things I think you should learn beforehand:

Main things in grammar, such as tenses and cases. I am not saying you should learn all the case endings or tense endings …

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Knowing a lot of languages is cool. Yet, you have to start somewhere and in this post I’m going to talk about how I started and where I advice you start learning languages if you don’t know that many yet and you want that. The short answer to this all is… Esperanto. For the long answer, read on.
So, it happened a couple of years ago. Five, to be exact. There were a couple of events that led me up to …

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I have come across a news article suggesting that just listening to the language without even understanding it is enough to help you learn it. First of all, I don’t quite think so. Why? Well, there are at least three reasons.
First of all, where’s the evidence? There’s an article, okay, that’s a start. What about , experiments with control groups, explanations how exactly that works (what parts of the brain are involved in this and why exactly this happens)? I don’t …

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