“Con los idiomas estás en casa en cualquier lugar” (“With languages you feel at home everywhere”) – Edward De Waal I could have sworn I was in Mexico. Every word I heard spoken was in Spanish. Every word I could read—on the walls, on the products, on the doors—were all in Spanish. Though I was already fluent in […]
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“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going”. Sam Levenson Learning English nowadays is not an option if you want to comfortably fit in and enjoy the globalized era we live in. I use English every day, and I simply can’t imagine not being able to speak it. The truth is, however, that English and I […]
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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” – Confucius It is every language learner’s dream: to speak a foreign language perfectly, without making any mistakes. Imagine achieving that without having to go through all those unpleasant and/or unwanted corrections you get from teachers, friends, language tandems, not to mention […]
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“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around” – Thomas A. Edison There are more neurons in our brain than there are stars in the Milky Way. No wonder we can learn any language, play any instrument, or acquire any other skill we put our mind to. It was getting dark in […]
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(Luca’s note: This post is written by Kevin Morehouse, a LucaLampariello.com team member).Do you remember what it was like when you first realized that you could learn multiple foreign languages, instead of just one or two? For me, it was electrifying. I had always loved languages, and for once, the possibilities seemed endless. For a long time, […]
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss As someone who speaks multiple languages, one of the questions I get asked a lot is if I have had many foreign girlfriends. When I reply that, well, yes, I’ve had my fair share of “foreign […]
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If you know more than one language, people will often wonder how you have the brainpower to keep them all in your head, and switch between them at will. “How the hell do you do that?”, I remember being asked. “Do what?”, I said. “Switch languages! How is it possible?” The person I was speaking to, a barista by […]
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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan What if I told you that you can learn to speak a language fluently through the Internet, and that you can do it quickly and easily from the comfort of your own home? Well, there is a way. It is called a language exchange. A language exchange […]
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After all, that’s just a dream, isn’t it? Forget speaking with perfect pitch and pronunciation, moving from topic to topic, knowing the meaning of every single word, and crafting elaborate sentences one after another. Sure, it would be great, but for the most part, we language learners are simpler souls with simpler dreams. We want to speak a […]
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Do you want to be good at speaking a foreign language? Of course you do! You wouldn’t be here, otherwise. It’s the number one goal of nearly every language learner. The problem is that many learners go about trying to speak in the wrong way. Or worse, they don’t actually try to speak at all. The hard truth […]
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