The other day, a member in one of my Esperanto group chats had asked "Kial estas kidnapping sed malestas adultnapping"?Setting aside the fact that malestas might not be a word, this roughly translates to "Why is there kidnapping but not adultnapping"...

Learning a language requires hundreds of hours of dedicated study. There's simply no getting around that. Despite what some of these YouTube polyglots say, there's no magic shortcut to getting fluent in a language. However, thinking about the hundred...

Many people talks about the dangers of perfectionism.And of course, there is some truth to this.But there are times when being a perfectionist is actually useful.To illustrate my point, I'll give you a few examples.When you dial someone's phone numbe...

People jokingly say that Spanish is the unofficial second language of the United States. And to be honest, there is some truth to that. Spanish is the second-most spoken language after English. Over 43 million people age 5 or older speak Spanish.But...

I was hanging out in a Discord server the other day and one of the members said something that really got me thinking. One of the members said, "I'm kind of garbage at everything and I have no professional goals."I didn't care much about the second p...

Relying on a single app is possibly the dumbest way to learn a language.And I'll be the first to admit that I did this in the past.I've had my account on Duolingo since 2014, and I thought that if all I did was work through Duolingo, I would be good...

I've said time and again that learning a language is a long journey. If you think picking up a language is something you can do when you feel like it, then you're better off finding another hobby. This isn't gonna work out for you. There are 2 kinds...

A few days ago, I had mentioned that I've been using the website "65 Words" to practice my writing.Well, I decided to take things a step further and do a review of the website to show you the ins and outs of how it works.It's available on my YouTube...

Esperanto is one of the easiest languages to learn if you're an English speaker. When I say it's easy, I don't mean it doesn't have its challenges. I'm just saying that challenges you face with Esperanto are far less than learning a natural language...

The great Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby, so helpless and so ridiculous."⁣While that is an extreme positio...