As is the nature of technology, a lot of things have changed since I last wrote product reviews or discussed my experiences with language learning apps or software and Duolingo vs Memrise is one of those toss-up questions everyone seems to have. A few years ago I wrote reviews of both Memrise and Duolingo –…
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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 Kamil Riaz It is a widely accepted notion that the best age to learn a new language is during childhood. This belief generally stems from the ‘critical period hypothesis’, which was popularized by linguist and neurologist, Eric Heinz Lenneberg, back in the 1960s. According to this hypothesis, the critical time for successful acquisition of…
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Have you ever considered moving abroad to learn Chinese in China? China is an incredible country with more linguistic diversity than you can shake a stick at, and the rewards to be gained by those who take the time to study it – be it Mandarin, Hakka, Cantonese or any other of the innumerable languages…
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by Thomas Dalsgaard Clausen I’ve been studying Arabic on and off for several years now. It all started with the French language, which first got me into language learning. I had studied it on my own for about four years until one day I found myself living and studying in Paris. It was an exciting…
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