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Headphones: An Essential Tool

Headphones: An Essential Tool

It may seem like an insignificant detail, but the type of headphones you use can have a significant impact on your language learning and the speed in which you reach...

Headphones: An Essential Tool

It may seem like an insignificant detail, but the type of headphones you use can have a significant impact on your language learning and the speed in which you reach...

Encouragement on YouTube

Encouragement on YouTube

Recently, user Dragon34th on YouTube commented on one of my videos:One course for any language??? Yeah right - Linguisticdisscursorabberatormastercashcollectorlubricatormasturbator :)) How does that new word sound, cool huh? Well, I...

Encouragement on YouTube

Recently, user Dragon34th on YouTube commented on one of my videos:One course for any language??? Yeah right - Linguisticdisscursorabberatormastercashcollectorlubricatormasturbator :)) How does that new word sound, cool huh? Well, I...

What Was the First Word?

What Was the First Word?

I just returned this morning from a little over a week in South Africa, the bulk of which I spent traveling through Kruger National Park with a couple of friends...

What Was the First Word?

I just returned this morning from a little over a week in South Africa, the bulk of which I spent traveling through Kruger National Park with a couple of friends...

Why History Matters

Why History Matters

When we go to study a language, most of us look at it as a fixed entity, stuck in the present time. Where the language came from doesn't matter, because...

Why History Matters

When we go to study a language, most of us look at it as a fixed entity, stuck in the present time. Where the language came from doesn't matter, because...

Grammar vs. Grammars

Grammar vs. Grammars

Someone I was working with on Japanese remarked recently that he was slightly confused by my use of "grammar" in the plural: "grammars." He asked if I saw there being...

Grammar vs. Grammars

Someone I was working with on Japanese remarked recently that he was slightly confused by my use of "grammar" in the plural: "grammars." He asked if I saw there being...

Riding the Cycles of Concentration

Riding the Cycles of Concentration

When I was growing up, my mother frequently reminded me of an old proverb: "It's easier to ride the horse in the direction it's going."Everybody's concentration wanes over time. We...

Riding the Cycles of Concentration

When I was growing up, my mother frequently reminded me of an old proverb: "It's easier to ride the horse in the direction it's going."Everybody's concentration wanes over time. We...