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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Russian is still a bit hard to find good resources to learn.
As for the basics of Russian… I still have no idea what is the best to use to learn the grammar. I have made a course for the Russian alphabet though so that’s a start.
When you get some basics down, there is one thing I can advise you from my experience: listen to podcasts. Podcasts are just like blogs but in audio (so they are like small private radio …

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I have not learnt Japanese that well so I’ll just give you some ideas. This is not nearly enough. This is just for the beginning.
First, start with the Carl Kenner’s Japanese audio course. Only half of if is finished so you won’t learn all you need to but chances are, you’ll find the course awesome. He uses audio and flashcards along with mnemonics to teach you basic Japanese.
Next, if you want to learn Kanji, a lot of people really …

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Note: I have told how I learnt Esperanto quite a while ago on this site. None of these advice have changed and this page is just a concize summary of them. However, I have added a few new ideas here and there which I posted here. I totally recommend you to read the old article too, though.
So, Esperanto is a cool little language which is relatively easy to learn and it opens doors for you to nice international meetings, a …

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Here I tell the story how I learned my French. Well, the story is not complete and I still plan to improve my French in the future (I have been doing that passively for a lot of time already and still haven’t taken up the task actively again). Also, I did not achieve fluency and it was just a long long way how I acquired some language. But hey, I can speak it now and I thought it might be …

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