Language Learning Tips

The amount of time it will take to learn a language is huge. But I am often asked how often you should study? The real answer is you should try and study often, and as much as you can. However, you need to recognise your limits and make sure you do not burn yourself out. […]

Learning a new language can be a lot fun and very rewarding. It comes with the obvious benefit of now being able to communicate and understand a whole new language, but it can give you so much more than that. Being able to speak to people and understand things is usually the main reason we

When learning a new language you will often hear the advice that you should look up the most common words and learn them, but is this a sensible thing to do? There is usually some statistics thrown around that the 1000 most common words make up the majority of the language that is used in

Learning a language is a huge task, but it’s certainly not impossible. It just takes a long time, so it’s not surprising that the most common question that is always asked is “How long will it take?” The real answer is…. It will take as long as its takes. That isn’t a very helpful answer,

You will hear aspiring language learners saying “I want to be fluent”, but what does it actually mean? It’s a pretty a pretty vague statement and there seems to be a lot of debate around what it means, so I will try and go through all the different ways this can be looked at. Personally

Immersion is one of the most important things you can do to help yourself learn a new language. You could also argue that it is impossible to learn a language without some form of immersion, so let’s look at what it is and how it works. What Is Language Immersion? Immersion is the act of

Learning a new language has the obvious advantage of giving you the skill of a new language, but you will actually gain so much more. Learning a new language will change you in a number of ways. It will make you a better person overall and I will go through exactly how it does that.

Some people claim you can learn a language in a month. Well, the honest truth is you cannot. You can learn a lot in a month, you can probably get a basic understanding and have some simple conversations, but you will be far from fluent and that is totally okay. It takes your brain long

When people are thinking about learning a language they always ask what the easiest language to learn, or if one language is harder than another. The truth is all languages are about equal. They all have just as many hard parts as easy. The difficulty of any language is solely based on the person wanting

There is wide held believe that the older you get, the harder it is to learn a language. Some people even believe that after a certain age, it’s actually impossible.  Luckily, this is not true. There is no limit to when you can start learning a language. If you feel like it’s too late for