Reading Fluency

Reading is the secret to becoming a more fluent speaker and writer in any language. You'll learn more vocabulary naturally and easily and be able to express yourself more precisely through written and spoken language. The key is to find the right reading material for you at each stage of your journey with your target language.

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Why Can You Understand a Language but Not Speak It?

Even if you can't speak yet, you're still making great progress. Speaking is hard, and it takes more time develop than your listening and understanding skills. It's completely normal to learn to understand long before you can speak any language. Your speaking skills are developing the more understand and practice, just at a slightly slower pace.

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Learning Multiple Languages at Once

Learning multiple languages simultaneously can be faster long-term than learning languages one at a time. Depending on your language goals, either approach can be effective for learning your target language. You'll just need to consider why you are learning your languages, how much time you have so that you can prioritize your languages and find the learning style that works best for you.

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How Long Does It Take to Learn a Language?

How long it takes you to learn a language is going to be unique to your language goals, background, and how you learn. You may learn more quickly depending on the language you're studying and your experience, it may take more time. By understanding the factors involved in the time it takes to learn, you'll be able to better estimate how long it may take to reach your language goals.

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Faster Language Learning with Immersion

Immersion makes language learning fast & easy when you have a solid action plan and implementation. It's interactive and fun because of the variety of activities and interactions as you explore your new language. You just need a few simple steps to get started!

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The Best Way to Learn a Language

The best way to learn a language is the way that you learn best. It’s based on your learning style and the time & resources you’d like to dedicate. It also changes depending on the language you’re learning and your level of proficiency in that language. It’s constantly evolving as you progress so that you continue to find your best way to learn at each new level of language learning you reach.

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Why Is Language Learning Hard?

Language learning doesn't have to be so hard when you understand why it's challenging. You can learn how to make the process easier by building a solid foundation in reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in your native language. The more experience you gain with learning language, starting with the experience you already have in your native language, the easier it'll become to keep learning languages to fluency.

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Language Learning Mistakes to Avoid

You don't have to make all the mistakes I did while learning a new language, and you don't have to be embarrassed when you do occasionally make a mistake. Learning a language is hard, but it doesn't have to be as hard as we tend to make it on ourselves. Understanding these 3 three mistakes will help you make fewer mistakes by changing the way you perceive mistakes and their place in language learning.

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Easy Language Learning

It's easy to learn a language when you enjoy what you're doing. The work becomes simpler when you understand the language learning process, and learning happens faster and more naturally as a result. Learning becomes easy, even when you're actually working with a concept that once was challenging.

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Create a Language Learning Habit

Forming new language learning habits takes time & practice but it doesn’t have to be hard. It takes consistency over days, weeks, months, and years, but it makes all the difference when it comes to becoming a fluent speaker of a language.

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Don’t Bother Studying Grammar

What if you could learn language in a way that actually made you feel fluent, like you could hold a conversation in that language with thinking about verb conjugation? You CAN when you focus on the fluency approach instead of learning grammar first. You'll be able to actually use the language AND you'll learn some grammar along the way without even having to study it❤

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A Return to Languages

We're diving back into language with a fresh approach - one that makes me really, truly excited to be studying again! I'm sharing how I'm starting to learn Mandarin again after a long one year break.

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The Time Witch

A poem about the simplicity & complexity of time and how mystical it can seem when we lose track of it. But like the way, we can always find it again because it's never ever really gone.

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Weird

Within your weirdness, you'll find the truest version of you, the one that doesn't quite fit into any category. You'll find your raw expression of truth that shines from deep within and emanates as far out as you'll allow it to.

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Hard Simple Things

It's hard to do simple things, but these these simple things are what move us forward most and what bring us the most genuine fulfillment in life. Simple things are hard to do, but they make all the difference in how we live and who we are.

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To My Younger Self

A note to myself from my present self, which is already my past self, to my further past self because, you see, time is an illusion based on our perception of reality at any given moment. Only when you stop trying so much to make sense of it does it resemble any form of logic.

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