by andrew | Aug 19, 2016 | Free Tools and Resources Reviews, General Language Learning, German, Language Learning Resources and Tools
Anki vs Memrise People have bugged me about Memrise for years now and, although I’ve used it a fair bit, I’d never gotten around to writing a proper review of it, so I thought I would by comparing it with its obvious rival and answering a question many...
by andrew | Feb 14, 2016 | General Language Learning
I just wanted to quickly talk today about a common misconception I see amongst beginning language learners, and that is that native speakers make good teachers of their own language. Imagine trying to teach someone English (or whatever your native language is). See...
by andrew | Feb 15, 2015 | General Language Learning, German, Product Reviews
As I’m fond of saying: You learn to speak a language by trying to speak it, poorly at first. What this means is that you learn by making mistakes which are then corrected, the corrections being where the actual learning takes place. Previously, I had...
by andrew | Feb 8, 2015 | General Language Learning, German, Product Reviews
I’ve tried six different tutors at this point (5 professional, 1 “community” tutor which is just someone who doesn’t teach the language as their day job and does online tutoring on the side), kept four of them (the first pro was flat out bad,...
by andrew | Jan 17, 2015 | General Language Learning, German, Product Reviews
I’m currently doing the iTalki 2015 Language Challenge which is where if you take at least 20 hours of instruction via their tutors then you can win 400 ITC (iTalki Credits, which are used to buy lessons with the tutors on there, with ten of them costing $1US)....
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