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Wow. That probably sums up the experience I have had the last week. As I'm sitting in Berlin Schönefeld Airport, heavily sleep deprived, I thought I would write down some of my thoughts about the craz
The eagle has landed. Or, at least I have managed to get all the way from Odense, Denmark to Berlin, Germany. The time of the Polyglot Berlin Gathering is upon us and I am coming to you live from my h
Today's post won't be as lenghty as usual, because I am literally swamped with exam preparations. To add to this pressure I will also be going to the PolyGlotBerlin Gathering next week, where I'll be
In this first part of my case study I describe how I use World of Warcraft to learn Russian by simulating the way I learnt my first foreign language. By using Video Games one not only learns naturally
In this post I admit to being a lazy learner and talk about some of the biggest problems when learning a language, like having unrealistic expectations.
Should one learn multiple languages at the same time? This post is a round-up of community answers to help you to decide for yourself.
Recently more and more attention has been put on language preservation in the social media. In this controversial post I give my take on why we shouldn't go out of our ways to preserve these dead or n
** Update November 2018: This post solved a problem many years ago, and while it still works new solutions have been developed, check the comment section!
For the last month and a little bit more I have been studying Russian as my first independently studied foreign language. It is the first I want to achieve fluency in, before I start moving on to anot
The language learning programs in school are vastly unsuccessful. In this post you'll read how I failed French and my general thoughts and views on classroom-based language learning.