Languages

From people learning Swahili every day in Tanzania, the best resources we’ve found for learning Swahili online.… Read More

A list of everyday Hebrew words and phrases to sound like a local in Israel.… Read More

I learned Hebrew for an hour a day for 30 days, using a new technique: learning 10 sentences and recording myself. Here’s the result — me speaking.… Read More

Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.… Read More

Mandarin Chinese was my sixth language to learn to fluency. Here are my favourite resources that I used, all of which are the best today. Most of them are free or cheap!… Read More

The best resources we used to get good in beginner Hebrew fast, all of them cheap (and some free).… Read More

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.… Read More

Korean isn’t too hard — but it was harder than I thought when I tried to learn it in late 2018! Here’s my view, as an experienced language learner, of how hard it is.… Read More

They’re both Semitic languages… but how similar are they? After learning to speak Arabic (and decent Hebrew) I try to answer this question in an easy-to-understand way.… Read More

We learned to speak Egyptian Arabic in 60 days. See the video evidence, read how we did it and what we learned for our future challenges.… Read More