by Andrew | Aug 14, 2016 | General Language-Learning, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
The tool in question is ReadLang, it works with any website in a variety of languages, and makes the process of learning new words from online text much easier than it was before, saving you massive amounts of time and effort. You click the word you don’t know,...
by Andrew | Sep 20, 2015 | General Language-Learning, Spain
Ok, so I’ve been here two weeks now, I’ve done nearly ten face-to-face language exchanges so far (all with native speakers), I’ve interacted with other natives quite a bit (buying groceries, ordering food, etc.), and I’ve got some insight I...
by Andrew | Feb 15, 2015 | General Language-Learning, Product Reviews
This is a repost from my German blog here, I’m posting all articles about the iTalki 2015 Language Challenge on both blogs. As I’m fond of saying: You learn to speak a language by trying to speak it, poorly at first. What this means is that you learn by...
by Andrew | Jan 6, 2015 | General Language-Learning
I’ve been meaning to move onto a new language at some point for about a year or so here despite my Spanish not being perfect (it’s actually waned a bit since I’ve been so busy, but I’m back into it now) and I really thought it was going to be...
by Andrew | Dec 30, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
I used to have a post here about various chat rooms you could use to practice not just Spanish but other languages as well, however all of those are now defunct and I didn’t want to just leave the post up directing people to a bunch of sites that didn’t...
by Andrew | Dec 23, 2014 | General Language-Learning
Right now I’m going to teach you not only how to effectively memorize vocabulary using a combination of visual mnemonic techniques and spaced repetition, but much more importantly: how to learn foreign language vocabulary, that is how to take that step from...
by Andrew | Dec 14, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
Brilliant. Long overdue. People have been asking for this, wanting this (even if they couldn’t exactly describe what it was they wanted), for years now. That’s how I would describe HiNative. It’s very simple: you have questions, native speakers...
by Andrew | Dec 13, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
If you want to practice writing a foreign language either because you want to practice that separately in addition to speaking and listening practice you’re already doing or because you’re solely interested in learning to read and write it but not speak...
by Andrew | Dec 12, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools
Today I’m going to quickly share with you my favorite resource for finding foreign language newspapers plus I’m going to show you my simple and effective method for learning the language from them (you don’t need to know any of the language to start...
by Andrew | Dec 11, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
Just wanted to write a very short post today to introduce you to this fantastic free resource I discovered a while back and forgot about: LyricsTraining.com. Here’s how it works, it’s very simple… They have music videos in various languages from...
by Andrew | Apr 24, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Product Reviews, Reviews, Reviews of Free Websites and Tools, Spanish
I’ve talked about (here) how I think language exchanges are probably the single most valuable thing you can do to learn a language because that’s where you’re actually talking to – and being corrected by – a native speaker, that’s...
by Andrew | Apr 21, 2014 | General Language-Learning, Spanish
The only way to learn to speak a language is to do so, horribly at first. That’s it. Get it through your head, there’s no getting around it. The only way to learn how to speak a language is to do so or, really, to try to do so, horribly at first while...
