The Polyglot Project, a collection of language learning tips from polyglots and language enthusiasts across the globe (including yours truly), is now available as both a physical book on Amazon and as a free PDF download. This tome of language awesomeness contains over 500 pages of language learning advice, tips, and success stories, with contributions from 43 authors, including Moses McCormick, Steve Kaufmann, Benny Lewis, Stuart Jay Raj, and countless others language heroes.

Michael Heim is a highly respected professor of Slavic languages at UCLA. He speaks 10 languages (though he explains that the number is hard to tie down due to the slippery political nature of language-dialect distinctions). Heim believes that effective language learning must begin (and progress) with a specific purpose in mind; he has never learned a language just for the heck of it. In a two-part interview posted on the UCLA Center for World Languages website, he explains why language experts produce poor textbooks, what he would do as "Langauge Czar" if such a position were to be created, and why Americans tend to do poorly in second language learning.