Speaking in a foreign language for me, is everything. Speaking and communicating with people from other countries and different cultures is what got me into this game in the first place. First, it ...

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With seven languages under his linguistic belt and an academic background in Applied Linguistics, Olly Richards of IWillTeachYouaLanguage.com has proven that he can both talk the talk and walk the walk. His infectious passion for all things language is a breath of fresh air in the increasingly cynical language learning blogosphere. In the interview, we discuss the under-appreciated importance of psychology in language learning, how he has had to ...

OBLIVIOUS. When tears silently fell from her cheek upon finding the note from her lover, 3 days before their daughter was born that read: ”I'm sorry. I can't do this.” ASHAMED. When classmates asked where my daddy was. I lied & told them he was Crocodile Dundee, and had to be in Australia to ...

Keith Brooks is the man behind Pardon My Norwegian, a site dedicated to “everything cool from Norway from the eyes of a Kentuckian”. Prior to “marrying” the Norwegian language, Keith sampled a number of a potential languages in a project called 37 Languages. His “speed dating” or “taste testing” approach to choosing just the right “significant linguistic other” got picked up by PRI’s The World in 2009 (“Blogging the Love of Language“), and Keith ...

"There are ways to make studying Chinese not only easy, but fun too." "Learn Chinese characters like Will Smith would." "The best new online resource for learning Mandarin Chinese." These are some ...