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13 Spanish Sentence Starters to Instantly Improve Your Conversational Spanish

Are you getting tongue-tied when conversing in Spanish? Familiarizing yourself with useful and common conversational phrases is a great way to improve your Spanish vocabulary and sound more natural when speaking.

French

French vs. English Pronunciation: 5 Tips to Help You Sound Fluent

As a French language learner, one of your top language goals is to sound fluent. Even if you don't know every single French word out there, your accent and how you speak can be the key to sounding fluent sooner than you may think possible. Fluency isn't just about knowing

Spanish

How to Learn Spanish by Watching TV an Hour a Day

What could be better than sitting down to relax and watch TV? Well, if you choose the right programs, it could be learning Spanish while you are watching TV. Watching television is a time to unwind and enjoy the chaos of someone else's life for an hour or two. You

French

5 Steps to Speaking French Like a Native

This article is for those who want to achieve more in language learning.

Language Learning

3 Steps to Master Pronunciation in Any Language

Pronunciation can take its toll on our self-confidence. The awkward silences and the way our tongues just seem to be against us when it's time to actually talk! And all because of a couple of sounds...how frustrating is that? Well, great news! Pronunciation does not have to be your

Spanish

The No-Fuss Guide to Teaching Yourself Spanish

Teaching yourself Spanish has never been easier. But isn't it ironic? Getting distracted, feeling overwhelmed, losing track and choosing inefficient methods for learning Spanish has become easier as well, especially if you do not start with the right strategy for becoming fluent! Teaching yourself anything requires focus, discipline and a

Spanish

Which Version of Spanish Should I Learn?

I want to learn Spanish: which Spanish dialect is better for me? Well...you have come to the right place! If proof is needed that Spanish has had a major influence throughout History, consider the 20 countries that keep using the language as their mother tongue today. Colored with local

Language Learning

The Truth About Why You Can't Learn a New Language

Bored, tired and overwhelmed. Learning a new language can be exhausting. Comparing yourself to that amazingly fluent student in your language course? Feeling so bored you can't even picture yourself writing a simple sentence, let alone conjugating verbs? We've all been there. Language learning is a game of the brain.

Language Learning

3 Benefits of Thinking in Your Native Language

Raise your hand if you have been told this in the past: "If you want to learn a new language, you have to stop thinking in your native language!" or "Stop thinking in your mother tongue, that's why you are struggling!". Well, things might not actually

Spanish

Top 8 Fun Spanish Songs for Learning to Speak Spanish

Relax, we are not about to tell you to endure "Despacito" for the 50th time! Music remains one of the most popular ways of exploring, absorbing and understanding a new language. Scientifically, research suggests that music learning could be intimately related to learning languages more easily. How awesome

French

3 Language Learning Strategies for Faster Results

You're headed to unknown territories and need to learn a language fast? This article suggests 3 ways you can boost your results, learn faster and more effectively.

Language Learning

Learning a Foreign Language? 10 Steps Guaranteed to Step Up Your Game

Learning a foreign language could be the challenge of your life. It requires focus, consistency, discipline, courage to put yourself out there and expose yourself to the target language. But what happens when you seem to have hit a plateau? What do you do when new words just seem to

Mandarin

Is Top Down or Bottom Up Processing Best When Learning Chinese?

You might have heard of top down or bottom up language learning techniques. If not, don’t worry, by the time you finish this article you’ll know what they are and the advantages and disadvantages of using them. You’ll also know in what ways to use them to