This month’s Clear The List post is a very special introduction to a new series here on Lindsay Does Languages. As we travel across Latin America, Ash, my husband, will be learning Spanish. He’s pretty much new to this whole language learning thing, so I thought it would be good to get his perspective on how things go. With that […]
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You can probably relate to this. Multiple times a year…not scrap that, maybe multiple times a month, I’m asked the following question by people I’ve just met, and by people who are good at stuff other than languages: How do you learn so many languages?! The answer that I want to give would leave them bored to tears. Something along […]
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Keeping up with our recent trend for 9 Reasons to Learn languages spoken in the UK with Scottish Gaelic last month, today we’re talking 9 reasons to learn Welsh. Let’s do this. When I was about 14, I visited Wales one summer with my dad. I remember buying a CD from a Welsh band, with Welsh words all over the […]
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Ever thought about learning Korean? Here are 9 reasons to learn Korean and the best resources to learn the language. If you’ve been looking for some reasons to learn Korean, read on to learn more and to get your free Korean Starter Page. My Story Korean is one of those “cool” languages, isn’t it? (Although, I talked about perceptions of […]
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It’s pretty rare that I get to do a 9 Reasons video about a language as I’m learning it. Normally I enlist the help of someone in the know and get just as curious as you do when you watch and learn about a language you didn’t know much about before. However, this one is a little different. Recently, Fiel […]
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At the start of 2016, I had a new language learning experience: a study buddy. But what role does a study buddy fill? And how can they help your language learning? I sat down with Shannon Kennedy to discuss how to have a successful language study buddy. Learning Korean at the start of 2016, I was excited to have a […]
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In summer 2015, I was overjoyed when our holiday plans in the Baltic worked out pretty darn well and we got to spend a day in Helsinki towards the end of the trip. I was under no pressure to learn Finnish to any decent level. After all, it was only a day, right? But more importantly, if 9 out of […]
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The internet is filled with infographics, blogs, and all sorts telling us what the most difficult language in the world is. Or maybe that’s just the corner of the internet where I hang out. Either way, I think it’s time to clear something up. I’m going to throw something out there today: no language is the hardest language in the […]
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