What is comprehensible input? Here's what language learners need to know
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
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
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!
Lots of German! Also: I finally found a way to track my language learning time consistently.
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Language Diary #2: Italian Crosstalk
Welcome back to my language diary. Which is apparently biweekly now with posts appearing on either Wednesdays or Thursdays, depending on how I feel. …
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Is it worth hiring a language tutor as a beginner?
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 …
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