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.

Sometimes it can seem like the world is really only interested in the world’s largest languages. Everyone seems to be learning English or Spanish or German. Sometimes daring individuals attempt craziness like Japanese or Russian. Insane, I know… But what if you’re looking for something a bit different? What if you already speak French and…
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Many reputable authorities on languages and language learning have been stating for countless years that watching foreign language films and listening to music in your target language is a great way to help yourself to learn a new language. But is it actually true that you can learn an entire language from movies and music?…
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