I’d like to welcome you to #clearthelist. If you’re new around these parts, #clearthelist is a linkup where we share our monthly goals, and by we, I mean myself, Lindsay of Lindsay Does Languages, Kris Broholm of Actual Fluency, and Angel Pretot of French Lover. We’d absolutely love for you to a part of our community. You can join us by adding a link to...
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Hello friends! The season is upon us – and that means that many language companies are offering incredible Black Friday deals. If you have a language learning friend or family member, you’ll definitely find them the perfect gift here. And you might treat yourself to a little something for all the hard work you’ve done learning a language. 😉 Disclosure: Some of the links below...
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Good or bad, habits are part of who we are, what we do and who we become. We spend time trying to eliminate bad habits and an equal amount of energy in establishing good habits. And when it comes to language learning, things are no different. Ensuring that we have good study habits surrounding our language learning routine is imperative to our success as learners....
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As language learners, we ask ourselves this one question almost every single day: “What should I study?” When you think about it, this seems like a pretty big question. In fact, for some, it might even be overwhelming. But, when it comes to learning a language, there isn’t really that much you have to work on. There are JUST four core skills – speaking, listening,...
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This past month, M and I have experienced a pretty big change, welcoming a new addition to our little family. We’ll call him Little Linguist for now. 😉 Before having kids, M and I spoke about our plans regarding language, particularly because we are a bilingual couple living in a monolingual country. M’s family speaks one language and mine speaks another, and we agreed that...
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These past few months I’ve hosted the Korean Language Challenge along with Lindsay Dow of Lindsay Does Languages, and it has been a wonderful language learning experience. It was the first time I’ve learnt another language with someone else, and it really did wonders for my motivation. Partnering up with another learner is definitely something that I’ll consider doing again in the future. But alas,...
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When it comes to studying Chinese, learning characters can easily become one of the more daunting tasks. Especially when you compare it to the writing systems of other languages like Russian or Korean where you only need to learn to read a new alphabet compared to the hundreds or even thousands of characters one must memorize to achieve reading fluency in Chinese. So how can...
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A short while back, I wrote a post about how I go about learning a new writing system. In that post, I shared a few of the ways that I go about learning a writing system that is different from my own, and in that post, I mentioned writing practice as one of my methods. Whether learning a new writing system for reading or writing...
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Today, because I want to point out that nearly every rule when it comes to language learning has an exception, I want to share a tip that might contradict some of what I’ve discussed in the past. In a few of my previous posts I’ve discussed why we should stick with one or two resources and work with them thoroughly. As a brief recap, I...
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The books in this series are what I’ve read as a part of the Language Reading Challenge. You can find out more information on how to participate in the challenge in this post and you can linkup for your January book at the bottom of this post. Language learning. As many of you know, there is so much more to those two seemingly simple words...
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