Today I'm spending the usual weekly update post to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for being with me all throughout the year.
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TokiPonathon and the first Actual Fluency Meetup in London
I just spent a lovely week in England visiting people, hosting the first-ever Actual Fluency meetup and learning the minimalist constructed language: Toki Pona. In today's post I'll share a few more details of how that went.
The Spaced Repetition Snowball: How to become overwhelmed by learning vocabulary
There are few people out there today, who don’t see the value of spaced repetition for learning vocabulary in languages. In fact, it can actually be used to learn anything. However, lately I’ve discovered a few traps with spaced repetition that I thought would be of use to other language learners.
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.
Why you should learn Esperanto (and how to do it!)
Why learn Esperanto? This is a question many people have when they hear about Esperanto.
In this guide I’ll try and look into the personal, linguistic and social benefits that one might obtain simply by learning Esperanto, and I'll also provide resources and courses for how to learn Esperanto quickly.
What Language To Learn: 4 Reasons to Pick Your Next Language
We are all fanatic about learning languages, but what language to learn next? Very often people come to the vast polyglot groups on Facebook or elsewhere and ask the question; What language should I learn next?