Before you start learning a second language, there's an important question you need to ask yourself. In fact, not answering this question could lead to a lot of wasted time and energy with nothing to show for it. Want to know what it is?It's this: Wh...
Someone on Reddit recently started learning Russian and came across the concept of immersion learning, which involves consuming tons of content in your TL, whehter it's books, movies, podcasts, etc. Being new to all this stuff, he had asked if there'...
We all know that English is a bit of a weird language when it comes to spelling and pronunciation. For example, the letters "ough" can be pronounced 9 different ways but you wouldn't know that just by looking at it. Other languages are guilty of this...
A little more than a week ago, I had surpassed 100 hours of speaking in Esperanto. This was a big achievement for me. Although, I had already spent a ton of time listening, reading and writing in Esperanto, I had decided to hold off on speaking until...
Someone on Reddit asked the other day if it's possible to become fluent in a language if you're just learning it for fun. After thinking about this for a while, I would have to say it's possible but with a few caveats. First, we have to define what i...
Recently, Refold came out with a pretty cool feature for their language learning tracking app.You can now join and create study groups within the app.The groups can either be private or public and you can customize the group according to language as...
Out of all the languages I'm studying, Esperanto is my strongest one by far. And it's not too surprising either. Even though I started studying Esperanto after Spanish and French, it didn't take long for my skills to catch up and eventually surpass b...
One of Esperanto's many unique features is known as the "table words" or correlatives. In a nutshell, Esperanto Table Words are a set of 45 words that combine 5 initial question/concept affixes with 9 different endings. These words pop up all the tim...
Subtitles are just about everywhere these days. Thanks to AI, they've become even more prolific. But are they helpful in language learning or are they holding you back?Let's talk about it. Many people are familiar with using subtitles in their native...
Anki is a tried and true tool when it comes to language learning.I've used it extensively for Esperanto, Spanish and French.One thing that isn't so obvious about Anki is when to move on from a particular deck that you're studying.This question was in...
