Language Learning Tips

Language Burn out is a phrase you will hear being thrown around the language learning community …but what actually is it and why does it happen? This is what I will be looking at here, so you can start to recognise the signs of it and hopefully avoid it. What Is Burn Out? Burn out

Tracking the time you spend immersing may seem over the top, but it’s very simple and more importantly it will give you some extremely useful information. Tracking the time you are spending with a language is going to make sure you actually do enough, which will of course make sure you reach your goals.  

Tracking your immersion is something I think is really important. Basically you will get a lot of information about what you are doing and having this is actually quite helpful at keeping you accountable and on track. We all want to make progress in our language, and taking the time to track what we are

Learning a language is a long and slow process. You will need to show up every day and put the work in. This can be tough and it’s made worse by most people trying to set a block of time aside so they can sit down and study. This can be great at times, but

Trying to learn vocabulary is often a struggle for language learners. It can feel like you are remembering nothing and it can get extremely frustrating. However, the problem is not that you are bad at this whole language learning thing; it’s just that you don’t understand the process of how your brain works. Once you

It can seem like there is a number of different ways to learn new vocabulary, but the reality is that no matter what you do, the words all enter your memory in the same way. Words will firstly enter your passive vocabulary and from there they may go to your active vocabulary. I will explain

There are a number of different ways to learn a language and one of those is through doing a lot of reading, which could be argued as the best way to learn.    While I would suggest that you should use a number of different approaches to learn, if you just wanted to just use

Reading seems like it should be a pretty straight forward and simple task, however, when we are reading in a new language we will often make a lot of mistakes as it can be more difficult than we realise. These small mistakes can all add up and hinder our progress. I will go through some

When you start learning a new language you might wonder what you should do and often I get asked if focusing on reading is a good idea, which it absolutely is. It doesn’t matter what level you are at, focusing on reading will always be beneficial for you and it is something you should put

When you start learning a new language you will probably find that reading is actually quite difficult, which may come as surprise as it is something we all find pretty easy in our native language. While it may be a very similar skill, reading in a new language is different enough to cause you problems.