Once you set up learning a new language, you'll have to pass through several steps, such as building a basic vocabulary, learning the new grammar and so forth. Most language enthusiasts and polyglots agree that this is the hardest part of the language learning process, since you have nothing to ... Click to read the article details

After you've established a basic vocabulary in the language you're studying and feel confident enough that you can pass on to some more complex jobs, it's time to put what you know to practice. The following tips and tricks are meant for people who have already achieved a basic level of ... Click to read the article details

Oh man, when you start out learning a new language, your biggest issue won't be the language itself, but choosing the right learning method. There is a plethora of websites out there these days, each coming with its own original language learning methods and although some of these methods are ... Click to read the article details

For an English native or for someone whose mother tongue bears the Latin ancestry, the Spanish grammar will be a lot easier to grasp than with many other languages. One of the grammatical issues that a lot of people learning Spanish have problems with, is understanding the Spanish tenses and ... Click to read the article details

I've noticed a lot of "learn German" courses and online language lessons try to teach their students German bluntly, without worrying about efficiency. I'm not saying it's wrong to learn a new language "the hard way", but in today's fast paced world, everyone wants to learn something with speed ... Click to read the article details

First of all, this article is meant to emphasize on the importance of the words + sounds combination when learning a new language. This does not mean that the third factor that often comes into play, images, is not important. Actually, images are extremely important in any language learning ... Click to read the article details

If you've set out to learn a new language, you'll notice that there will be a big difference in learning speed if you try studying on your own, or with the help of a tutor. First of all, a tutor knows exactly where to start and what steps should be undertaken to learn that language correctly and ... Click to read the article details

I was half shocked, half amused reading all the stuff on the Internet about how learning Spanish is "easy" and how some guides teach you how to speak Spanish in 21 days. I always wanted to ask the people writing this kind of guides, exactly who they think they're fooling. Spanish, just like any ... Click to read the article details

Learning a new language is often considered a costly task and people spend tons of money on buying books, courses, taking daily German lessons or paying for audio tapes, video lessons and so forth. Now, there's an alternative to all of this: free language lessons online.

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Being a complex learning process, language learning can be hindered by dozens of factors, without you even knowing it. Whenever you hear someone saying that learning a particular language was "hard", "slow", "painful" or any other similar word, he or she was hindered by the factors that we'll be ... Click to read the article details

There are two ways you can learn a language: the quick way, or the correct way. The following tips and tricks are not meant for someone that wants to learn French for example simply so he can handle himself in a basic conversation 3 weeks from now, or for someone that needs to learn basic German ... Click to read the article details

For English speakers and for most South American and European countries, learning Latin and Anglo Saxon languages is rather easy. But when faced to learn something that doesn't share the same grammar rules, alphabet, genders or verb tenses, we're in a bucket of trouble. That's why Russian, next to ... Click to read the article details

You'll find many language learning sources stating that the best technique to learn a new language is to memorize words and improve vocabulary, as this will lead to a better understanding of the language, you'll be able to start "thinking" in that new language, due to the fact that you won't have ... Click to read the article details

I'm so tired of people crying out that "learning German is so hard and so time consuming" you basically hear those guys and girls everywhere on the Internet and you have to wonder: what the heck are they doing wrong? German is one of the easiest languages to learn if you are already familiar with ... Click to read the article details

With Spanish being one of the most widely spread languages on Earth, improving your vocabulary with it won't be as hard as with other languages, because you'll be hearing and reading Spanish words wherever you look. It's almost as easy as learning English as a non-native, since English can be read ... Click to read the article details

Most courses or free online language lessons focus on splitting the learning process into these three categories: basic, intermediate and advanced. But how exactly do you know what category you're part of at a given moment?

Basic Language Learning

Basic language learning usually ... Click to read the article details

Not all languages can be learnt at the same pace. If you're English for example, and try to learn German, you can jump right into improving vocabulary and practicing pronunciation and orthography, since the two languages use the same alphabet (for the most part), writing system and share almost ... Click to read the article details

Building up the vocabulary of the language you're trying to learn is probably the most time consuming part of the entire process. You can get orthography, spelling, pronunciation and grammar right after a few weeks of practice, but your vocabulary will take months, if not years to fully expand to ... Click to read the article details

I recently had the chance to talk to an American living in Japan, who had mastered the Japanese language. He told me he first took some free language lessons online, but those didn't clear up much so he followed a local language course in his home town. Slowly, he managed to build up his knowledge ... Click to read the article details

Think about a language's grammar as the glue that keeps the puzzle pieces tight to form the bigger picture. Regardless if you have a large vocabulary in the foreign language you're studying, regardless if you can spell or pronounce words close to perfection or if you can pull off understanding ... Click to read the article details

If you skim through the Internet, you will be able to find virtually thousands of different language learning techniques and methods, some that will prove to do wonders to your progress while others will tend to slow you down. From free language learning courses online, to course books and ... Click to read the article details

For most people, this question is easily answerable, but there's always that slightly smaller mass of guys and girls speaking an important international language that wonder why they need to learn another one, when they can easily handle themselves about with the help of their mother tongue. Some ... Click to read the article details

When hearing the word "polyglot" you probably think of some fancy upper-class genius speaking 6-7 or more languages. Unfortunately this idea that being a polyglot is an "unreachable" is way too common nowadays. Technically, you can be considered a polyglot if you can fluently speak 3 or more ... Click to read the article details

Ask anyone on the street to give you the definition of the word "polyglot" and he'll mutter out something about "a person speaking many languages". Still, if we go in depth we will find out that a polyglot is much more than this and they can be categorized through various means.

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Vocabulary improvement is undoubtedly one of the key elements in any language learning process, regardless if you're learning French, English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese or any other language, no matter how "complicated" it is and what its rules are. Actually, obtaining an initial vocabulary base ... Click to read the article details

Building up your vocabulary is arguably the most important part of a language learning process. If you don't have a base vocabulary to work with, you can't study grammar, you have absolutely no use for spelling or pronunciation exercises and writing or reading is definitely out of the question. ... Click to read the article details

Studying a (new) foreign language is a time consuming process and with the fast paced lives we're living in today, time is not a commodity we can often spare. A lot more popular in the past, local language centers are losing more and more students due to the sheer waste of time it takes to go to ... Click to read the article details

As with any practice that doesn't necessarily has a "one way" of being done, language learning has a few common mistakes that apply to most, if not all the available learning methods out there. Whether you're studying using a free online course, through educational games, translated texts, ... Click to read the article details

In today's global world market it is often beneficial to know at least one language other than your native language. In fact, it is a bonus that will assure your marketability. The more languages you speak fluently the more demand there will be for your particular talents. This can be easily ... Click to read the article details

It has been said that in studying others, we learn more about ourselves. The same holds true when learning new languages. Taking up the study of a new language is one of the greatest gifts you can offer yourself. Learning in any form is wonderful and if you can do so for free, even better. Check ... Click to read the article details

You would be amazed of how many children and youngsters speak one or two foreign languages fluently, especially those leaving in a non-English country. English is obviously extremely easy to learn, since children have contact with it all the time, through media, video games, the Internet, toys and ... Click to read the article details

It has been often speculated and questioned which foreign language is easier to learn for a native English speaking person or for someone that already masters the English language. Spanish has the advantage of being so widely spread and having influenced the entire world already, however it is a ... Click to read the article details

The answer to this question is "Yes", Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn and to master. Regardless of what you've heard, regardless of what you've read and regardless of how many "Learn Japanese in 10 days" book titles you've seen at the library, the Japanese language is ... Click to read the article details

The Internet is becoming a massive force in the lives of many people around the world. It is used to connect to the world at large, to communicate for the purposes of business, family, and friendships, as well as to find entertainment. The Internet is quickly replacing the television as the ... Click to read the article details

Have you ever wondered what you could do with your knowledge if you were to learn a foreign language? There are worlds of opportunities that will open up for you should you decide to dedicate your time and attention to the study of a foreign language.

Here are a few of the careers you ... Click to read the article details

It has been stated on numerous occasions and in most specialty books and courses that the best way to learn and to build up on a foreign language is to live in an environment where this language is constantly present. The most obvious choice would be to visit or even move in a country that speaks ... Click to read the article details

Japanese is anything but an easy language to learn, regardless of one's mother tongue. Still, it is one of the most popular foreign language choices in America and Europe, for two main reasons: the economical importance of Japan and the numerous businesses contracted between Japan and these areas ... Click to read the article details

Learning a new language as a family can be a wonderful and rewarding thing to do, especially if you have small children at home. For them, learning at smaller ages will be much easier than learning later in life. It will also be more rewarding for you, as a family to be able to have that extra ... Click to read the article details

Whether you're going to move abroad for a fixed amount of time for school education, business issues or simply for a better/new type of lifestyle, you're going to be hit by what most people call the "cultural shock". This involves hitting yourself to a new lifestyle, new ways of handling issues, ... Click to read the article details

If you've ever had the urge to travel around the world, visiting exotic places, and ordering authentic local cuisine, then you've probably considered the fact that it might help if you were able to speak the language. Even if only to read the menu at your favorite French Bistro or Italian ... Click to read the article details

Learning a new language can be frightening, exciting, fun, and unfortunately sometimes boring. Taking free language lessons makes the boring part of that equation obsolete by using games, flash cards, and word scrambles in order to help you memorize words and learn vocabulary. It's not that hard ... Click to read the article details

The audio tape language learning technique took a boost in popularity in the early 90s, when it was considered one of the most prolific learning methods of those times. As with all things that grow too popular for their own good, competition tried to take advantage and turn this popularity into ... Click to read the article details

You can't say you have a solid grasp on a foreign language unless you have a solid vocabulary to back your claims up. Grammar, spelling and pronunciation mistakes might slip every once in a while, but if you're reading a text or listening to a conversation and can't understand a third of the words ... Click to read the article details

Start your dream vacation experience early with language lessons. Many of us spend a good portion of our lives dreaming of that one huge trip abroad that will take us too many places and expose us to many new people and cultures. However, we often fail to see how important knowing the language of ... Click to read the article details

We all know the importance of play in early childhood and research shows that childhood is the best time to learn new languages. For this reason alone, the Internet has a great deal to offer young children developing foreign language skills. By using flashcards and matching games, children are ... Click to read the article details

One of the first steps we take when learning a language, be it our mother tongue as children, or a foreign language later on in life, is expanding our vocabulary by memorizing words (usually nouns and adjectives at first). Memorizing is done naturally when we're living in an environment that ... Click to read the article details

If you're a native English speaker, or even if you simply know English well enough to be reading and understanding this article, learning German should prove to be a lot easier than for people speaking a different language. The reason for this is that German and English are closely related, they ... Click to read the article details

Seeing how Spanish is one of the most important languages in the World in terms of numbers of speakers (around 350 million Spanish speakers world wide, making Spanish come fourth in a top of the most popular languages) it's easily understandable why learning this language has become a priority for ... Click to read the article details

The speed and consistency at which you assimilate a foreign language depends on a lot of factors, including:

1) Whether or not your mother tongue and the foreign language you're learning have a shared lexical family and glossary (Latin or Germanic languages for example)

2) Your ... Click to read the article details

When you have set your mind on learning a new language, you are in the position to choose how to start learning it. You basically have three options: starting a practical home-based language learning course (possibly an online one), starting a so-called "travel-based" learning experience that ... Click to read the article details