Language Learning Tips

When you start learning a language you will quickly realising that focusing on all of areas of the language is hard, you might ask yourself if you can avoid reading. Honestly, you might be able to get away with this for a while and only focus on listening; however, you will be seriously limiting yourself. […]

When you start learning a new language you will find listening extremely difficult. This is for a number of reasons which I will cover below, but basically when you hear it for the first time, it’s probably full speed native level. This is basically the equivalent of you trying to race an Olympic sprinter who has

Listening to a new language can be difficult and you will find that there are a lot of common mistakes you can make, regardless of what language you are trying to learn. I will go through some of the most common so you try and watch out for them in your own studies.  Listening is

I am often asked what is the best way to learn a language? and if you ask most people who had had success, listening will be involved in some way. Listening has a lot of benefits and it certainly could be argued that it’s the best thing a learner could do to see progress. I

When it comes to actually learning a new language, listening may actually be the most important aspect. If you could only focus on one part of the language and tried to make the most progress, I think listening would be the option to go for. There can be a misunderstanding that you just need to

When you start learning a new language it can be difficult to know what to focus on. Listening is often something people ask about, and honestly, it is absolutely what you should focus on. Listening can be tricky at first, but you can quickly get to grips with it and you will learn a lot

When we learn languages, there is usually a part we don’t like and want to avoid. For some people, this will be listening.  However, trying to avoid listening is going to be extremely detrimental for your progress and I would argue that you will get nowhere. If you avoid listening, you will fail. It is

Writing is often seen as long winded and boring, so it’s common to hear people asking if they can skip this part. The truth is you can, but only for a while. You don’t need writing to learn a language as you can do this through reading and listening. However, if you want to actually

If you have tried to learn a new language, you will quickly realise it is extremely difficult. You may even think it is impossible at times, which can really make you question how a polyglot can do it so easily and so many different times. Polyglots are just normal people, even if they look like

When it comes to writing in a new language we often do not feel comfortable with it at all and usually try and avoid it. It can be very common for there to be a lot of anxiety and fear around writing and many language learners will put it off or convince themselves that it’s