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Language exchanges are pretty awesome, but just like anything, they are not perfect and there can be plenty of problems. You will face at least one of the problems I am going to cover below, but realistically you will probably face many of them. It doesn’t mean language exchanges are bad, you just have to […]

Language exchanges can be a great way to practice your language and it is also a great way to meet new people. If you are not too sure what they are all about you can read – What Are Language Exchange Partners? – While this contains a lot of good information, I still get asked

Language exchanges can be very beneficial for your language learning, but you can also waste a lot of time if you are not careful. Ideally you want to be making the most of the time you spend on language exchange apps and I will go through some ways you can make sure this happens. If

Language exchanges are a great way to practice your language skills and also meet new people. The benefits you get from using language exchanges may be obvious at times, but I will go through these, along with some benefits you may not have realised you can get. If you haven’t started using language exchange apps,

When we are learning a language, we need resources, and these can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Maybe it’s a textbook, a course or just a movie we are using to immerse with. Usually we pick the resource that we think can give us the most value, but do these have any

Language learning burn out can be a real problem and it is a very unpleasant experience, which means you should really be trying to avoid it where ever you can. A lot of the times burn out is caused by how we study; basically we just end up pushing ourselves too hard until we reach

You will often hear that burn out can lead to depression and this whole type of situation sounds awful. You have also probably heard that you can get burnt out from learning a language, so I think it’s only natural to ask that if you where to become burnt out from learning a language …can

When we are learning a language there are often a lot of things that slow us down. Procrastination and burn out are two common problems that are often confused for each other. However, they are actually very different, so I will go through what exactly they are and how you can stop them both so

You will often hear me talk about language learning burn out, but studying a language is not the only way you can become burnt out. In fact it is probably more common for people to suffer from burn out in other areas of their life, especially from work, so if this where to happen to

Living life can be tough, we have to dedicate a lot of time to our work and other commitments and somehow still find the time to do what we want and chase our interests. For some hobbies this isn’t too much of a problem, but for language learning, it can be. Learning a language can