Recently, someone posted on Reddit and asked for some unusual ways to learn a language. It got over 50 comments and many people offered some interesting answers. After looking them over, I decided to take the 5 most interesting ones and share them wi...

Cognates are a language learner's best friend.They're a clever way to help you get familiar with a language without doing a ton of extra work.I remember first learning about cognates when I was learning Spanish in school.In a nutshell, a cognate is a...

Anki is a tool beloved by language learners. In a nutshell, it's a flashcard app that you can use to memorize just about anything, and as you would expect, it's not limited to just memorizing words. Med students are another group of people that have...

I have a confession to make. I'm a bit of a bookworm. Been like that ever since I was a kid. One of the things that excited me most about learning another language is having access to an entire new world of literature that was previously closed off t...

Sometimes, it feels like I have a million things to do. I'm sure you can relate to the feeling. Of course, language learning is up there, but there are other things that are important to me as well like my job, working out, hanging out with friends,...

A new study reveals that babies start processing language a lot earlier than we thought. Turns out, babies don't have to wait until they're out of the womb to start making sense of language. It's already happening while they're a fetus. The study was...

Copying other people has always gotten a bad rap. But when done the right way, it can actually be quite useful. Especially in language learning. This year, one of my main focuses is improving my ability to speak and write in Spanish and French. I've...

French and Spanish are both heavy hitters among language learners.There's good reason to learn one or the other.But if you had to pick one, which should you choose?The answer, of course, is going to be different for everybody.In this week's blog post...

It has been known for a long time that humans are the only one that can utilize language the way that we do. And for a while, it was believed that our mental processing of languages is a core reason why we can use language and other animals can't. Ho...

As you know, I place a lot of emphasis on improving your listening/reading comprehension in your target language first before practicing speaking and writing. But once you reach a level where your comprehension is strong, what do you do next?How do y...