Need an alarm clock to remember who you are? Music awakens our brains, “Music...
As I’ve written before, I wouldn’t have realized that there's a link between learning languages and music if it weren’t for Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Dr. Sacks’ books,(Musicophilia, The Mind’s Eye, etc.) have shown me and...
Language confusion: 3 funny polyglots explain how to avoid mixing up your languages
If you thought that polyglots are just serious language lovers who spend all their time talking about grammar, you are wrong!
I spent three fun-filled days in Poland with Richard Simcott and Luca Lampariello switching...
Free tips on learning languages, Polyglot Project
Claude Cartigenese of the "Polyglot Project" compiled a huge 600 page document with stories from many language learners around the world who explain how they became polyglots. Some of the linguists in the book...
Lives lost in wars because GI Joe and GI Jane can’t speak foreign languages
The Time Magazine blog post: The Pentagon's Foreign-Language Frustrations shows how poorly US military personnel can actually communicate in Iraq and Afghanistan. The news is appalling, but not surprising. The military's language schools have...
Is a polyglot’s brain different?
Listen to this new Subtitle podcast episode "Is a polyglot's brain different?", to find out the answer.
You'll also learn about my language-learning story and about the brains of people who speak many languages.
I did...
Not learning languages reduced job prospects
The Telegraph article, Foreign languages are 'elitist' subjects, came out earlier this year in the UK showing that state jobs require foreign language knowledge while fewer school offer language classes. This means that more people...
Singing to the subjunctive
Studying grammar is a good way to get one’s mind off of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Susanna, do you seriously have nothing better to do?
There are more entertaining things to do like watch movies on Netflix...
Integrating parents in language education
New Haven schools get $1.3M for language studies; Chinese, Arabic to be expanded
By the New Haven Register
In Connecticut, the school systems is expanding its Chinese and Arabic language classes and including parents in the learning...
The importance of female role models for female language learners
Last week, for International Women’s Day, I wrote a blog post, How we all benefit when women are multilingual about the scarcity of female language bloggers and You Tube polyglots on the Fluent in...
TEDx: Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls.
Alas, my TEDx talk on why we need to learn foreign languages and save endangered languages via music has been posted online.
