Fluency: it’s the elusive goal of any language-learner. But given the seemingly infinite complexities of language, it’s hard to know exactly when we language learners have earned the right to call ourselves “fluent”. The issue is a difficult one: what does it mean, exactly, to speak a foreign language fluently?

In an earlier post about the first steps one should take when starting a new language I mentioned my method of classifying tools into something I like to refer to as primary and secondary language learning strategies. Any language learner who is serious about pursuing their language goals – be they long term or shorter term – needs to pay…
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By Jimmy Monaghan   Now that the Internet is capable of providing us with enough language learning materials and applications to keep even the most studious of us busy for years, it can seem unnecessary to actually take classes to learn a new language. Why would anybody pay money to learn something which they can…
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins a single step…” Or so they claim. Studying a new language isn’t always especially difficult to do in and of itself. Sure, there are hurdles; words you just can’t seem to nail down and difficulties managing your time, but in general the hardest part of learning a new language…
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My office is almost always messy; a fact that irritates my wife and leads my feet to small sharp objects from time to time. Every so often I attempt to clean it a little bit but following Christmas this year I am finally able to take advantage of the piles of junk and use my…
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It’s a new year, a clean slate, a fresh start, and I’m just about to begin a brand new major language project: French! In any case; 2014 was a great year for LATG. We went from 8,000 fans to over 20,000 fans on Facebook. Constructed a Twitter account that now has a humble but not…
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