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A lot of new language learners get nervous about studying as they don’t want to waste their time, or learn things the wrong way. This is totally normal and is something we will all face from time to time. Some people will get anxious about having to listen in the language and I will go

Listening is an important skill when it comes to language learning and there are actually a lot of misconceptions around this skill and if you get caught up in any of these, you will seriously derail your progress in your new language. Listening really is the key to learning a language and it is important

Spending time listening to your target language is going to be extremely important for your progress, but it isn’t always the easiest thing to do. You are going to come across a lot of different challenges when you start listening to a new language and I will go through some of the most common ones

Listening is extremely important for your language acquisition and is the base of all the immersion you will do, so we really can not underestimate how important listening to your new language is. I have written a lot about listening on this website, which I will link throughout this article, but I still get asked

When it comes to listening to material in your new language, people often shy away from native content as they think they will get to that when they are “ready”. Unfortunately you will never be fully ready and it is much more sensible to start listening to it right now, no matter what your level

When you start studying a new language you will want to end up being pretty good at listening, speaking, reading and writing. If you can conquer these four areas of the language you are going to be in a good position. However, it can be hard to balance all these different areas of the language,

People often think that you need to learn the language, then you can watch TV and movies and while that may make sense …it’s not true. Watching TV shows and movies is actually a great way to enhance your listening skills and generally learn the language. You should be doing this from an early stage

Listening is a very important part of language learning and it is probably the one thing you will do the most of, so it is going to be essential to get as good as possible at this skill. Really the secret is to listen to as much as you can in the language, but I

Writing is the often forgotten skill when we think about language learning, but it is actually something we should be doing more of as it can actually bring us a lot of benefits, which I will go through here. While handwriting isn’t as common these days, so it’s easy to dismiss writing, but we still