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Welcome, aspiring polyglot! If you have been learning a new language for any longer than 5 minutes, you have probably realized just how difficult it is going to be to start understanding native speakers. I’ve written about this…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! In one of my Spanish classes, I was working with a bodybuilder and something we realized is that having class on a day where he lifted heavily resulted in him being unable to think. This led to us…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! I go back and forth with my students about this a lot. Largely because I am opposed to flashcards outright, but I also don’t believe that everything that works for me is everything that will work for…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! I have been thinking about the concept of mental agility quite a bit recently. Primarily because it is the best name I can put to the idea of being able to think about the same idea 3 different ways.…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! Recently, I was talking to one of my students who was finishing her class about the feeling of inadequacy that comes with knowing “enough”. One of the problems with learning a new language is that…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! In my classes, we usually start speaking around week 6. Of course it is broken speech, but everyone starts somewhere. Well, some people start nowhere, but if you are going to start you have to start…
Hello, aspiring polyglot! I’m not going to bury the lede here, I need help. You may have noticed that my articles are not going out on the same days every week anymore. The truth is, I overbooked my private lesson schedule. Which…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! When I was a kid, and still today, there were and are times where the idea of doing something was and is more terrifying than the act of doing the thing. This is largely the same for people who are…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! As we age, it is very easy to slow down or even stop learning altogether. After all, if you spent the first twenty or thirty years of your life learning, surely by your forties it is time to use the…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! Recently I was talking to my wife about the biggest changes in our life since having a baby and what it really boiled down to is that a lot of things are less convenient than before. Rather, many of…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! When I was a kid, I don’t remember exactly how old, I remember having a conversation with my parents. It’s pretty easy to take things personally when you are hormonal and, man, those teenage years are…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! An interesting quirk of teaching foreign languages in the age of AI is that you start to realize humans often hallucinate as often as AI does. Which makes sense. After all, humans did create AI. What…