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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 …

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

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”

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.

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. …

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 …

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