The struggle to balance your language learning time with everything else you do in a day can be a pain in the ass, but you don’t have to stop doing the other things in life that you love (or maybe don’t love) to do. There are ways that you can fit language learning into your…
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by Jane Sandwood   Learning a new tongue has become more popular than ever thanks to the variety of online language learning courses available. However, there is no getting around the fact that it can be extremely difficult to master a language. Recent research suggests that difficulties in picking up a foreign language arise from trying too hard.…
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With so many language learning tools, apps, courses and online exchanges, it can sometimes be a bit frustrating trying to find a useful and safe language exchange program, and many, if not most of us, have run afoul of the weird side of language exchanges at some point. Unfortunately, the online world has never exactly…
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by Louise Taylor   It’s not just those working in the professional translation industry who have a natural aptitude for language absorption. The human brain is pre-disposed towards language learning. No matter where a child is born, nor which language its parents speak, the earliest years of life are spent absorbing, repeating and understanding sounds…
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by Hongyu Chen   Here is one of the most commonly asked questions regarding pronunciation: “Is it possible for someone to learn a new language after childhood and still sound like a native speaker?” This question is widely debated everywhere from Quora to Internet forums, and is a heated topic of academic research. With tons…
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by Jesse Reyes   German, Russian, Czech, and Turkish…what do these languages have in common with one another? They all use grammatical cases. I first encountered cases when I started to study Russian. Previously the only other languages I had any experience with were Spanish and my native English. Needless to say, when I first…
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