Want To Speak Well In Your Target Language? Read More.
Some people say they read well in a language, but struggle to speak. Solution: speak more, but don’t neglect reading. A wide passive vocabulary, best acquired by reading, enables you to engage in conv...
1 Nov 20229min
Vocabulary You Forget is Still Part of Your Memory
Many people think memory in language learning refers only to words you are able to retrieve when you need them. A much bigger part of your memory are words that you once learned and have forgotten. Th...
27 Okt 20226min
How to Succeed in the First 3 Months of Learning a Language
When you start in a language, nothing is comprehensible. So then how do we get a toehold? Some advice for the key first three months.
26 Okt 20229min
How To Improve Your Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is crucial in language learning and in life. The faster we can read, the more quickly we understand what we’re reading, and the faster we learn. There are tricks we can use to im...
21 Okt 20226min
Mexican Spanish Vs. Spain Spanish
Some people worry about which kind of Spanish to learn, Mexican, Colombian, Argentinian, or the Spanish from Spain. In my view, this is not something worth worrying about when we start out in the lang...
19 Okt 202210min
Reading & Listening Comprehension Strategy: When To Focus
When we learn a language we focus on specific details at times, to get a clearer sense of the language. At other times we allow the language to enter our brain with less than perfect comprehension. Bo...
14 Okt 20227min
AI And Language Learning
I use artificial intelligence in the way I learn languages already. I think we’re just at the beginning of what AI can do to help us enjoy language learning more, and consequently do better.
12 Okt 202213min
To Learn Vocabulary We Must Forget Vocabulary
An obstacle to acquiring vocabulary is our reluctance to accept forgetting, our vain hope to hang on to vocabulary we have tried to learn. Maybe we should just let go of new vocabulary, repeatedly cat...
4 Okt 20229min
