The other day, I had posted my progress for the day on the Refold server as part of their daily accountability. Basically, every day a new thread is made where you share your language learning progress for the day. Ben (the content guy) had responde...

Learning a language often means learning lots of words. In some ways, there's no getting around this. I remember someone saying once that words are the soul of a language, and that always stuck with me. Words are important because they are what you u...

In a previous email, I mentioned that I've been using iTalki to help me with speaking Esperanto. Currently, I've taken 2 lessons and I have another one coming up this Saturday. While iTalki may not be for everyone, I can definitely say that it works...

When learning Spanish, you'll come to find out rather quickly that there are 2 different verbs for "to be": ser and estar.As a native English speaker, this can seem a bit strange to us, being that we only have one.However, if you want to be a profici...

Since I got back into language learning back in 2023, I've been tracking the amount of time I've put into my language learning studies. At the time of writing this email, I'm just under 1,800 hours. And that's between Esperanto, French, and Spanish....

I was on Reddit the other day and someone had asked if there was a language that they could learn in under a year.Apparently, they're doing it as part of some elaborate April Fools' prank for 2026.I hopped on the thread and commented that they could...

Comprehensible Input is all the rage in the language learning community. Some even consider it the "holy grail" when it comes to picking up another language. But just what is it about?In a nutshell, Comprehensible Input is any message that you receiv...

As a language learner, there's a surprising amount of things you can do on your own to learn your language. You can watch content, study vocabulary, work on your pronunciation, and so on. And I'm a big believer in being as self-sufficient as humanly...

When it comes to learning Spanish online, a popular choice among learners is Dreaming Spanish.But what is it exactly?In short, Dreaming Spanish is a collection of videos you can watch from the comfort of your own home that's based on the principles o...

When learning a language, you might think that native speakers are the best of information when it comes to picking up a language. And it makes sense on the surface. They clearly have a high degree of mastery and probably know the language inside and...