Language Learning Guides and Resources

Fun and interesting conversation topics to use with your language partner or teacher when studying any language, or English (ESL). Have fun!

Our guide for learning a language while working full time, spending only an hour a day — how to learn as efficiently as possible.

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.

Our tips for using Anki by actual polyglots who’ve used it to get to nine languages (and counting).

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…

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.

Heard flashcard are the bee’s knees but are freaked out by Anki? This’ll make getting started a breeze.

How to be a great online language teacher. Tips for teachers from students.

Everything we’ve learned from learning eight languages. Updated after our 2019 Egyptian Arabic challenge.