We all wish for a magical way to memorize words in a foreign language.  And no wonder, since most modern languages are estimated to have vocabularies ranging in the hundreds of thousands of words.  If you're learning a language, you'll need to find a way to commit anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand of those ...

Do you agree there’s nothing more tempting than Anki if you’re looking for a magical way to easily remember new words in a foreign language?There’s little effort involved, you don’t need to worry about which words to review, and you have clear stats to keep track of your progress.I mean, who needs traditional memorization methods when you’ve got ...

From an outside perspective, there's one thing about the major languages of east Asia that stands out sharply from the rest: their writing systems.While much of the western world relies on the twenty-plus letters of the Latin alphabet, China, Japan, and Korea are different—China uses a collection of thousands of drawing-like glyphs, Japan uses those same glyphs and ...

NOTE: This article contains affiliate linksHas this happened to you?You read a post online about the benefits of reading in a foreign language, and decide that you’d like to give it a try.You sit down with your chosen text, and turn to page one.You read a few words...and then stop. Suddenly, there’s a word you don’t understand.Determined to ...