Monoglot Anxiety

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

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

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

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

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

Language Diary #2: Italian Crosstalk

Elise Cutts
Date : February 9, 2022
Categories : German ,Italian ,Language diary ,Language learning
Tags : Language learning tips ,Teach yourself a language ,Beginner language learning

Welcome back to my language diary. Which is apparently biweekly now with posts appearing on either Wednesdays or Thursdays, depending on how I feel. …

Language Diary #1: Italian and making short-term language plans

Date : January 26, 2022
Categories : Italian ,German ,Language diary
Tags : Learn german ,Learn italian ,Beginner language learning ,Advanced language learning ,Speakly

I sincerely hope that future Elise will have a much better idea what she’s doing with this whole language business than today Elise, and with …

Is it worth hiring a language tutor as a beginner?

Date : January 22, 2022
Categories : Language learning
Tags : Beginner language learning ,Teach yourself a language ,Language learning tips

I didn’t book my first lesson with an online tutor until about one and half years after starting to learn German. My lesson was my first …

Book Review: The Language Secret by John Stedman

Elise Cutts
Date : December 20, 2021
Categories : Language learning ,Reviews
Tags : Language learning books ,Language resources ,Book reviews ,Teach yourself a language

If you’re a language nerd like me, you probably waste hours reading books about languages that you could have spent actually learning one. And …

How I Passed the Goethe B2 German Exam With a Nearly Perfect Score

Elise Cutts
Date : December 19, 2021
Categories : German ,Language learning ,Tips and strategies ,Comprehensible input
Tags : German exam ,Language learning tips ,Learn german ,Comprehensible input

Last week on Monday I officially went from monoglot to… duo-glot? Bilingual sounds wrong. I didn’t grow up speaking two languages. …

How to make better language flashcards by combining writing practice with spaced repetition

Elise Cutts
Date : April 15, 2021
Categories : Language learning
Tags : Anki ,Language learning tips

Writing is one of my favorite ways to actively study German. It is great for vocabulary building and grammar practice, and in the absence of speaking …