How to Be a Good Online Language Teacher (From Students)
How to be a great online language teacher. Tips for teachers from students.
Learn languages intensively by living in the country where they’re spoken.
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Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn foreign languages through immersive study. Master new skills by going to where they do them best. Go to where you feel uncomfortable, until strangers become your friends and you begin to feel at home.
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.
Find out some common language-learning mistakes to avoid falling into, from people who’ve fallen into (and climbed out of) dozens before.
All the words you need to talk about the sites and monuments in Egypt using Egyptian Arabic.
Colloquial everyday useful survival phrases in Egyptian Arabic guaranteed to earn you respect.
Unlock delicious cheap local food by learning to read an Egyptian local menu in Arabic, 80-20 style.
We like learning languages with books, not apps. (Except Anki.)
Egyptian Arabic definitely exists in written form, even if it’s not standardized. Just look at menus, text messages and Facebook for an idea.
A comprehensive guide on where to stay in Cairo, with a detailed neighborhood guide and photos.
I love a wall of language textbooks. They make me feel good, even if I haven’t read them all. In fact, 90% of the books I’ve retained over the years have been language books[1]. On my last visit to a physical bookstore (in Portland, Oregon), I bought three books, all about Persian. Jo bought one…