When the recent article in The Cut came out proclaiming Duolingo useless, the glee was palpable. I get it. You’ve spent countless hours at the beck and call of that owl, and you still can’t speak Spanish, …
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How to Use italki Stategically: Find the Right Tutor and Get the Most Out of Your Online Language Lessons
In the spring of 2019, when I first wrote this post, I had just booked a trip to Prague, Bratislava, Lviv, and Kiev. Of course, this meant I had some new languages to learn (Czech, Slovak, and …
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Langjam: Studying Swedish When You Only Have Four Days
Hej allihopa! This weekend I participated in Sandra Schellhase’s Language Jam social media challenge, in which participants have four days to study a language which they are randomly assigned. I was so happy to get Swedish! …
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10 Ways to Improve Your Accent in a Foreign Language
Working on your accent? So am I — in six languages. As a native speaker of English and an adult learner of Spanish, French, Mandarin, Korean, Indonesian, and ASL, I’ve had my fair share of phonetic struggles, …
Continue reading#30DRYC: How To Use Challenges as Motivation in Language Learning
We’re at the end of the 30-Day Record Yourself Challenge, in which language learners are recording themselves speaking in their target language for at least a minute every day. It has been challenging to keep up, but …
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