It’s no secret that great thoughts come to us at the most unlikely – and often least convenient – times. For me at least, this tends to happen in the shower. It’s comfortable, it’s relaxing, and all you want to do is stay inside because you know that the moment you step out it’ll be…
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I’m not always exactly the most excessively patriotic person on the planet, especially as of late. After all, I left the United States to become an expat “seeking a better life” in Germany – successfully I might add. However, one thing that makes me particularly proud of being an American is that there is no…
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If you’re anything like me you’ve got a healthy number of language bookmarks floating around in your browser’s unnecessarily crowded bookmarks tab. As time goes by, we language enthusiasts have a tendency of accumulating new products, systems, articles, premium subscriptions or other resources and resource lists that we thought looked useful at one point but…
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French has been called the “language of love” for decades – maybe longer – and there are many reasons, as students or speakers of French well know, why this is true. While popular opinions of the language have fluctuated over time from obsession to mild derision, if anything can be said about French it’s that…
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I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to think outside the box when it comes to new learning strategies, both for myself and my own language projects as well as to share on this blog. If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – learning a language is a lengthy process for…
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For years the stereotype given by Americans and other tourists to Europe has been that learning other languages is often pointless because “everyone speaks English now anyway”. Contrary to frequent belief, not all Europeans speak English and you still need to learn German in Germany if you’re planning on living there long term.
