Clozemaster and Duolingo are 2 prominent apps in the language learning space. In fact, they came out within a few years of one another. Duolingo became publicly available in 2012 while Clozemaster launched in 2016.Since then, each one of them have bu...

As some of you know, I was a monolingual for the better part of my life. But it didn't have to be that away. In fact, I came from a multilingual household. My father speaks Haitian Creole and English and my mother speaks Mauritian Creole, Haitian Cre...

I was reading on Reddit the other day about someone who had a rather unfortunate experience.This person is a native Chinese speaker and used to visit China every year up until Covid hit.Since then, they haven't spoken Chinese all that much.As a resul...

A while back, someone posted on Reddit asking for advice on the most helpful language learning advice. To provide some context, this person is studying German and they need to reach an intermediate level in less than a year. They were able to reach a...

I was hanging out in Evildea's Discord server and I got to witness an interesting conversation take place.There's a guy in there who recently started learning Esperanto and he had a question based on something Evildea said in one of his videos.He not...

After Duolingo's recent announcement, a lot of people have been scrambling and looking for an alternative for the green owl. While no app will ever replace Duolingo entirely, there are some decent contenders worth considering.In my latest blog post,...

The other day, someone asked in one of the Esperanto subreddits if Esperanto speakers have particular beliefs.This is a fair question to ask.It's probably best not to join something that doesn't align with your personal beliefs.Several people gave go...

In yesterday's email, I talked about the importance of words when it comes to learning a language.But there's another equally important component that many people dread: grammar.While they are related to one another, they both serve different functio...

Languages and words are inseparable from one another. One could argue that a language is ultimately made up of words, although that is a slight oversimplification. In any case, becoming proficient in a language requires learning lots of words.There a...

Speaking is one of the 4 main skills you need to be proficient in a language.The others being writing, reading, and listening.For many people, speaking is often the most difficult skill to master.And it's not so much the speaking part.It's getting yo...