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- Have you ever wondered what the easiest languages to learn are? - As we enter the new decade, maybe you’ve decided it’s the [...]
- Have you ever wondered what the hardest languages to learn are? - Perhaps you: - - are looking for a linguistic challenge [...]
- Не стыдно молчать, когда нечего сказать. - Nye stydna malchat’, kagda nechevo skazat’ - Translation: There’s no shame in being silent when there [...]
Last year, on a cold rainy night in London, I was standing on a podium battling a 40ºC fever (104ºF), attempting to introduce my new [...]
- Now on the I Will Teach You a Language podcast… - Which of course all self-respecting language learners listen to devotedly… - There [...]
- After the relationship advice I dished out in the last Rule of Language Learning, quite frankly I’m amazed you’re back for more! - [...]
- This rule of Language Learning and this topic is a biggie, so it’s coming in two parts… - And it begins with one [...]
- Now, you may have noticed that not everyone in the world speaks English. - And thank God for that… I mean, can you [...]
- I want you to be honest with me right now… - Have you ever thought to yourself that going to live abroad is [...]
- I've taken on some ambitious language learning projects in the past, from learning Italian in London through input, to learning Thai in Thailand [...]
- Scott Young is a writer and blogger who undertakes interesting and ambitious self-education projects. - From attempting to learn MIT's four-year computer science [...]
- Olly Richards here, back again with another Rule of Language Learning, and today I have language teachers firmly in my sights. - And [...]
- Here’s a little known fact about me… - Many years ago I used to practise martial arts. -
- In this post, I’m going to tell you about the most embarrassing language mistake I think I’ve ever made. - The kind of [...]
- Welcome back to yet another Rule of Language Learning… - And you'd better get used to it, because these Rules of Language Learning [...]
- Olly Richards here and I’m back with another rule of language learning. And this one is an absolute belter! - But, before we [...]
- Now, I want you to imagine that we drew a graph of the time it takes to become fluent in a foreign language. [...]
- Back in the 5th Rule of Language Learning, we had a very pithy rule that was summed up like this: Review, Review, Review… [...]
- Back in Rule 005, you may remember I mentioned a Spanish friend of mine, Tomás, who taught me how to politely offend people [...]
- She said: “Nobody ever told me!” - I said: “What do you mean nobody ever told you?” - “Nobody told me. I didn't [...]
- I’ve got some important news for you… - And you’d better pay attention, because I was doing some research recently, and it turns [...]
- In a previous life, I was a musician. And the piano was my weapon of choice. - I was very serious about music for [...]
- Back in the dizzy days of 2011, I was living in Japan, teaching English. - It was the start of term, and I [...]
- I’m about to make enemies of half the planet with this one… - Let’s see how it goes… - There were four of [...]
- Welcome back to the Rules of Language Learning… - Rule number 7, ladies and gentlemen, will quite literally blow your head off. - [...]
- What exactly is the Olly Richards school of cooking? - And what on Earth does that have to do with language learning? - [...]
- In my early days of language learning, I had a very close friend – a Spanish speaker called Tomás. - He was – [...]
- Imagine that you want to learn a new musical instrument. - The piano, say. - So you find a teacher and head to [...]
- In years gone by, when I first started learning languages… - In the “olden days” you might call it… - I used to [...]
- It’s my belief that the internet is making us dumber. - That’s right, the internet – that treasure trove of knowledge at your [...]
- Let me ask you a very important question… - Would you take business advice from someone who’s stinking rich? - You would? Ok [...]