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Welcome, aspiring polyglot! As we age, it is very easy to slow down or even stop learning altogether. After all, if you spent the first twenty or thirty years of your life learning, surely by your forties it is time to use the…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! Recently I was talking to my wife about the biggest changes in our life since having a baby and what it really boiled down to is that a lot of things are less convenient than before. Rather, many of…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! When I was a kid, I don’t remember exactly how old, I remember having a conversation with my parents. It’s pretty easy to take things personally when you are hormonal and, man, those teenage years are…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! An interesting quirk of teaching foreign languages in the age of AI is that you start to realize humans often hallucinate as often as AI does. Which makes sense. After all, humans did create AI. What…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! It was recently brought to my attention that, while I do talk about it, I don’t talk about it enough. That is, how do you actually get to the point where you are able to understand a new language…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! In class the other day, one of my students told me that he enjoys reading my articles because he can hear my voice in them. At first I wasn’t entirely sure what he meant, but then I realized I do tend…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! For this post I thought I would outline all of the tools and resources that my students use throughout and beyond our time together. Questions are completely normal and one of the problems many…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! The other day we were at an event and it was impossible not to notice how many people were glued to their devices. I’m old. Not, like, knee replacement old. But definitely *sneeze and my shoulder…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! Over the past few years I have realized that the vast majority of people truly do want to learn and improve. The results of language acquisition within the public education system may suggest…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! I recently reached out to my high school English teacher. With any luck she is reading this now! She was hands down the most influential educator I ever interacted with throughout high school (in 3…
Hello! If you are receiving this email, it is because you are supporting me and my language acquisition project directly. Thank you for choosing to do so. With how many resources exist out there, I am truly grateful that you…
Welcome, aspiring polyglot! The other day I gave someone some advice based on how I run my classes and how my students do things. Understandably, it seem implausible. So, to answer that comment, I wanted to talk about the…