7 Simple Steps to Create a Powerful Active Listening Practice
Have you ever heard of using active listening to learn a foreign language? If you haven’t, let me tell you the story of how active listening made a huge impact on my language learning. Let’s rewind to some 10 years ago. The year is 2008. I had just reached an intermediate level in Russian, a language I was […]
Continue reading7 Tips to Improve Your Listening Comprehension (That Never Fail)
“Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience” – Ralph Waldo Emerson When people ask me how to improve their listening comprehension in a foreign language, the same story always comes to mind: It is the story of an American student, by the name of Alex, who hired me to be his language coach. What struck me […]
Continue readingHow to stay Motivated when Learning a New Language – Visualize and Connect
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere” – Albert Einstein The year is 2011. I had never felt failure like this before. For the past few months, I had been learning Romanian. I picked it up on a whim, thinking that it would be easy. After all, I already spoke four of Romanian’s […]
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If you had to run a marathon tomorrow, how would you do it? Would you run as fast as possible, trying to get it over with? Or would you pace yourself, making sure you had enough stamina to make it all the way across the finish line — 42 kilometers away? Most people would choose […]
Continue readingThe Life of a Polyglot
When I tell people that I speak thirteen languages, they often think that as a polyglot, learning languages is all I do with my time. They’re convinced that I spend the majority of each day studying, and that I have little time for anything else—including friends, dating, travel, and other free-time activities. This is definitely not […]
Continue reading10 Kick-Ass Tips to Learn Any Language From Scratch
Learning a language from scratch can be very intimidating, especially if you’ve never done it before. In school, at least, a lot of the decisions are made for us. In a language classroom, we are told what to learn, how to practice, and how quickly to progress through new material. On your own, the situation is very […]
Continue reading7 Incredibly Useful Benefits of Learning a New Language
One of the most interesting aspects of learning a new language is how it can benefit your life in powerful and often unpredictable ways. I have fond memories of the time when, fifteen years ago, I was sitting on the steps of a fountain in my home city of Rome, Italy. On that evening, I was chatting […]
Continue readingWhat is a Language Coach (and Why Do You Need One)?
Have you ever tried to get in shape by going to the gym? You make the decision that you want to improve your health and fitness, and buy a gym membership to do it. But then what? You enter the gym, and you suddenly take in all of the options available to you. You need to pick […]
Continue readingThe Most Unconventional Way To Learn A New Language in 2018 (with LucaLampariello.com)
So, you want to learn a new language. It’s a dream shared by many. In fact, I’ve never met a person who didn’t want to learn a foreign language at some point in their life.Whether it be for work, for pleasure, for travel, love, or just the mere challenge of it, nearly everyone I’ve spoken to […]
Continue readingHow to Learn Spanish for Beginners
“Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.” (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.) ― Gloria E. Anzaldúa When I visited New York for the first time in 2015, many things were just as I had imagined: the frenetic pace, the impressive Manhattan skyline, the buzzing nightlife. What I […]
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