by Conor Clyne | Oct 12, 2018 | English, Language Learning Techniques, Language Projects
Glossika claims to be “your gateway to fluency” and that you will “learn a language the most natural way”. So does Glossika live up to its catchy slogans? Note: I originally used Glossika in 2014 to help me learn intermediate Russian and then...
by Conor Clyne | Apr 12, 2018 | English, Language Learning Techniques, Product Reviews
Lingq is a language learning platform created by my friend and hyperpolyglot, Steve Kaufmann. Steve is a big fan of the pioneering research of Dr. Steven Krashen and his comprehensible input theory. This basically means that one needs a lot of input (listening and...
by Conor Clyne | Apr 5, 2018 | English, Language Learning Techniques, Product Reviews
Speechling is a pronunciation app/website, which aims to help you nail your pronunciation in 6 languages (April 2018 – English, Russian, French, Spanish, German and Chinese). I tried out Speechling in Russian as that was the language where I thought it would be...
by Conor Clyne | Mar 29, 2018 | English, Language Learning Techniques, Product Reviews
The Mimic Method is a pronunciation course, which claims to help you in English, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese (as of April 2018). I went through the Elemental Sounds courses for all the foreign languages that I speak in...
by Conor Clyne | Feb 22, 2018 | English, Language Learning Techniques, Polyglottism
In this article, I’m going to interview Yulia, the mother of Bella, a 4-year old girl who speaks 7 languages. How many years did Bella speak? How old was Bella when she first spoke a foreign language? In your opinion, what prompted Bella to speak different...
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