Video: Simple tips for learning languages
So you're not from a bilingual family and you live in a monolingual area where there's no one who speaks the language you're learning, you can still learn a new language.
Aaron Myers and I...
Learn Portuguese with Brazilian songs
I am not the only one singing the praises of Brazilian music as a way to learn Portuguese!
On September 29, 2011, I attended an event of the San Francisco Brazilian Portuguese MeetUp and asked...
My new book in Italian: La lingua è musica
I just published La lingua è musica, the ebook version of my book on learning languages using music, TV, radio, etc, in Italian.
Free during Covid-19 pandemic
I am offering the book for free during the...
Ladino and the beauty of Sarajevo, Bosnia
"Sarajevo has a soul. It has a heart."
My passion for Ladino/Judeo-Spanish is no secret. In this video, Richard Simcott (the hyperpolyglot extraordinnaire) and I speak in Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian (or whatever else you like to call...
How Russian speakers can sound harsh in English without realizing it
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show made a funny and correct assessment of why Russian speakers sound "evil" in English, although they may not have any bad intentions.
"I wonder if Russia has been our...
Three polyglots meet in Poland
Do polyglots just talk about language learning?
If we did, we'd probably bore each other very quickly!
I had the pleasure of meeting Richard Simcott and Luca Lampariello in Poznań, Poland earlier this month. We share...
Ai, Se Eu Te Pego! Learn a catchy Brazilian song, learn Brazilian Portuguese
Do you want to know what the Brazilian Portuguese words "nossa", "balada", "pegar", and "galera" mean?
Do you want to distinguish the words "mas" and "mais" and not confuse them?
You can learn those lessons in...
Learn Spanish, English & Japanese with songs (chords, Spanish, English & Japanese lyrics included)
Do you want to learn Spanish, English or Japanese using songs but you are too lazy to ind the translation in English, lyrics in Spanish and chord notations?
It can be time consuming to dig...
Portuguese via Spanish, Italian & a little French: different roads to a mellifluous tongue
The strange thing with the Portuguese language is I don't remember why I wanted to learn it, yet I can speak it. The Spanish language and Italian literature and film have been major influences in my learning the Portuguese language and becoming interested in Portugal.
Russia through French eyes: Experiencing life anew in a different language
Rare is the book which envelops my attention, delights me in its prose, makes me re-read passages both for the joy of the flow of the sentences and for the content and strikes a...
