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What is comprehensible input? Here’s what language learners need to know

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : October 19, 2022
  • Categories : Language learning ,Science of language ,Tips and strategies ,Comprehensible input
  • Tags : Comprehensible input ,Language learning tips ,Research ,Science of language learning ,Teach yourself a language
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How I self-taught German to C1 using immersion — despite being busy and disorganized

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : September 27, 2022
  • Categories : Tips and strategies ,Language learning ,German ,Comprehensible input
  • Tags : Comprehensible input ,German exam ,Language learning tips ,Teach yourself a language ,Language self study ,Learn german
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Why I don’t like to “gendern” in German — and why I do it anyways

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : September 16, 2022
  • Categories : German ,Opinion and analysis
  • Tags : Learn german ,Inclusive language ,Politics
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How to automatically track language learning time using iOS automations

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : September 12, 2022
  • Categories : Tips and strategies ,Language learning
  • Tags : Language learning tech ,Organization
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Real Language Stories: Ten Years of Russian

  • Dack Powell
  • Date : September 1, 2022
  • Categories : Real language stories ,Language learning
  • Tags : Language learning tips ,Russian ,Language community
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How learning a language can boost your career

  • Reed Jane
  • Date : November 4, 2022
  • Categories : Guest posts
  • Tags : Language learning

In this guest post, Reed Jane writes about how language learning can boost your career.

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What is comprehensible input? Here's what language learners need to know

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : October 19, 2022
  • Categories : Language learning ,Science of language ,Tips and strategies ,Comprehensible input
  • Tags : Comprehensible input ,Language learning tips ,Research ,Science of language learning ,Teach yourself a language

Comprehensible input is anything in your target language that you can mostly understand. And research shows it’s the key to language …

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Real Language Stories: How to be fluent in vulnerability in a year

  • Lexie Grace
  • Date : October 7, 2022
  • Categories : Spanish ,Real language stories ,Language learning
  • Tags : Perfectionism ,Language community ,Language self study ,Teach yourself a language

For Lexie Grace, learning Spanish meant learning to be vulnerable, too

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How I self-taught German to C1 using immersion — despite being busy and disorganized

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : September 27, 2022
  • Categories : Tips and strategies ,Language learning ,German ,Comprehensible input
  • Tags : Comprehensible input ,German exam ,Language learning tips ,Teach yourself a language ,Language self study ,Learn german

As one reader put it, teaching myself German took “2 years of not really doing much actually”

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Language Diary 3: Now with tracked time data!

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : September 20, 2022
  • Categories : Language diary ,Italian ,German
  • Tags : Teach yourself a language ,Organization ,Language learning tech ,Learn italian ,Learn german ,Language classes ,Comprehensible input ,Beginner language learning ,Advanced language learning

Lots of German! Also: I finally found a way to track my language learning time consistently.

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Why I don't like to "gendern" in German — and why I do it anyways

  • Elise Cutts
  • Date : September 16, 2022
  • Categories : German ,Opinion and analysis
  • Tags : Learn german ,Inclusive language ,Politics

As an English native speaker, explicitly calling out that I’m female all the time feels more backwards than progressive. Many German speakers …

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