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Babbel is a large online language course provider based in Berlin, Germany. In this post I take a look at their course offers, and attempt to answer the question: "Is Babbel Worth it?"
Honest review of Duolingo: free forever, strong gamification, and an easy-to-use mobile app — undermined by weird sentences, text-to-speech audio, and shallow grammar.
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This is my review of Fluent in 3 months Premium 2.0. Find out what you get and whether it's worth the upfront cost or not!
The most epic multilingual road trip ever attempted is the tagline behind the new project from the Memrise team. Their aim is to drive a London-style double-decker bus through Europe and record the wo
Is it possible to learn a language in one month? How far can one get? This is the premise of a new language learning documentary by Connor Grooms, whom I recently had the chance to interview on the po
In this post I'm retelling the story of my first time in the US as well as participating in my first Polyglot Conference. This post features my journey up through the night before the Conference.
How to pick the right language tutor online can seem like a daunting experience. In this post I try to make it simple by sharing my philosophy when picking an online tutor for my favourite tutoring pl
Welcome to the Actual Fluency Blogging Guide. This guide walks you through setting up your own language learning blog, so you can get higher levels of accountability. This motivates greatly in stickin
This post contains all the resources I used to learn Russian and also contains tips and tricks new learners of Russian can use to learn Russian easier.