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Why You Should Wear Your Language Like a Badge

“I’m not ready” The famous last words of many a language learner. No matter how much practice or study we’ve put into a language, there is always the temptation to utter the above phrase, to wait for...

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What You See is What You Become: The Role of Vision in Language Learning

At this very moment, you are fighting a war. Not a war between countries, religions, or differing ideologies. But a war within yourself. Or within your selves, I should say. You may have never taken...

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Thinking of Quitting Language Learning? 5 Things to Try Instead

They say quitting is never an option. I disagree. As much as I love language learning, quitting is always an option, particularly if you’ve decided that language learning as a general enterprise is not...

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50 Actions You Can Take In The Next 5 Minutes to Boost Your Language Learning

The path of the language learner is often viewed as a line. We’re standing at one end, while fluency (or whatever other goal we’re aiming at) is at the opposite end, some distance away. It’s no fun to...

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How to Avoid Forgetting the Languages You’ve Already Learned

Has this happened to you? Have you spent a serious chunk of time in your past on language learning, only to set it aside and forget nearly everything? I have. For a decade and a half, I made an art...

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The Problem with Fluency

Fluency. Everybody wants to achieve it. It’s cool. It’s chic. It’s that certain something that all beginners strive for, and all those who’ve attained it want more of. And that’s great. But before you...

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Are You Asking For Failure?

Let’s try an experiment. In a moment, I’m going to ask you to close your eyes. Before you do so, please take a few seconds to read ahead, so you know what I’m asking of you. When you close your eyes,...

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How to Stay Positive in the Face of Language Learning Difficulties

This is never going to work. Have you ever had that thought? Have you ever been so frustrated with some aspect of a language or language learning that you were absolutely, one-hundred percent sure that...

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Pain & Perseverance: A Primer for Struggling Language Learners

No pain, no gain.  It’s one of the more heavily used sayings in the motivation industry, especially across the fields of fitness, athletics, and yes….language learning. I’ve written before about my...

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How a Language Learning Routine Brings Peace of Mind

“So, how’s your language learning going?” It’s a simple enough question. So simple, in fact, that one would expect the answer to be equally so. However, when I was asked the question the other day by a...

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