italki Review: The Cheap and Easy Way to Find a Language Tutor

italki is one of the best language tutoring platforms on the market. They offer affordable tutoring lessons in hundreds of languages, and booking a lesson is easy and quick.

In this review, I take a look at some of the lesser-known features of italki and share some of my tips and tricks for using it

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My Rocket Languages Review: Surprisingly Good!

One of my favourite activities here on Actual Fluency is to give language software, apps, courses and other methods a good test to see if it's useful and effective to learn languages with.

Today I'm taking a look at Rocket Languages.

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My Duolingo Review: The best free language courses?

Duolingo Review: When I was doing research for an upcoming article on the best language learning courses online I took a look at Duolingo and this is what came out of it.

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My Fluent In 3 Months Premium Review: Is it worth it?

The Fluent in 3 Months Premium Program is a collection of resources to help language learners learn their target language faster, produced by Benny Lewis – a best-selling author and internationally renowned polyglot.

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Conversation Countdown Review: Can you speak in a week?

In this post I give a brief overview of Benny Lewis' course: Conversation Countdown, and how you can use it to get a very fast start in learning any foreign language.

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Review: Antosch and Lin flashcard service – First look

As I take great pride in exploring the tools and services out there for language learners, I did not hesitate when Oliver Antosch of Antosch & Lin approached me to review their flashcard service. Note that this is part 1 of my review, the first look. I will write another post when I have used the service for a month to evaluate it.

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