Learn Languages with Netflix
How to use Netflix to learn a foreign language, including plugins to help you learn words, download subtitles, use two subtitle files at once and more.
Anki Pro Tips for Language Learners (a FAQ)
Our tips for using Anki by actual polyglots who’ve used it to get to nine languages (and counting).
Three Fun Ways to Remember Difficult Words
No matter how you try to learn words in a foreign language, there are always some words that get “stuck”. You just can’t memorise them. If you use flashcards, you have to keep marking them as a fail. If you’re speaking to someone, you keep struggling to remember the right word, leading to an awkward…
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Lingvist Review: Fun, but Incomplete [2021 updated]
Lingvist is a fun app that teaches you sentences by getting you to put in the missing word. However, we wouldn’t recommend it for serious language study.
How to Use Anki — For Language Learners
Heard flashcard are the bee’s knees but are freaked out by Anki? This’ll make getting started a breeze.
Five Tips for Being a Great Online Language Teacher (from Language Students)
How to be a great online language teacher. Tips for teachers from students.
How We Learn Languages
Everything we’ve learned from learning eight languages. Updated after our 2019 Egyptian Arabic challenge.
Are you making these common language learning mistakes?
Find out some common language-learning mistakes to avoid falling into, from people who’ve fallen into (and climbed out of) dozens before.
Learn Languages Faster with Books, not Apps
We like learning languages with books, not apps. (Except Anki)
Six Tips to Get More out of Your Language Tutors
This post contains affiliate links. If you’ve followed along, we’ve been enjoying using iTalki for our tutoring needs. So far we’ve used it for Korean, French and Egyptian Arabic. Along the way we’ve learned a thing or two about how to get the most out of it. The Friend, The School Teacher and The Professional We…