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Which Language Should I Learn?

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So you have decided that you want to learn a new language. This is big. This will change your life. If you are wondering which language to learn, here is a little bit of help. Here are a few thoughts that you might find useful:

1) Ignore Thoughts of “Easy” and “Difficult”

Here ar...

The Best Japanese Movies, Anime and Games

An Article by Angel Armstead

Do you love Japanese culture as much as I do?

Since I’ve been studying Japanese the longest out of the three languages I’m studying, I want to showcase some of my favorite games, shows and movies.

I'm actually still on the hunt for my favourite Japanese novel. I currently don’t have any favorite Japanese novels as I still have problems with much of the writing system. I don’t have that problem with some of my games because they typically use kana, which I'm pretty...

New Competition from DW: Share your German Learning Methods

To everyone who is learning the coolest language of all - Deutsch! Deutsche Welle, Germany's fabulous international broadcaster has launched a competition together with DHL. They want to hear from German learners all around the world.

A little snapshot from one of my own German classes in Lancaster - we definitely need some caffeine!

Wie lernst du Deutsch?

How do you learn German? Are you up for sharing a bit of "show and tell"? Maybe take a picture at your German class, or take a picture of...

Travel Plans: Meet Up With Kerstin in America

Last year I got to meet the ever lovely Mr Randy Glover, my long term German student, in London. Come and meet me on my travels!

One of my favourite podcasts is Betty in the Sky, whose wonderful theme song invites us to "travel the world together". So as I am putting preparations together for my own special trip, I want to invite you to join me if you can!

On Friday, I will bundle myself into an aeroplane and head over to the USA:

Portland OR (March 23-25),California (April 1-7),Chicago (April...

Jamie Oliver: Secret Cantonese Speaker

Hi everyone, just a really quick blog post today to share with you the adorable Cantonese skills of a very English chef: Jamie Oliver!

Mr Oliver is preparing for World Domination. If you don't know this guy, a quick summary of Jamie Oliver would be "laid-back British chef, extremely enterprising and loves to portray himself as a geezer". Geezer is a regional word from Southern England, meaning "dude". Jamie is a dude.

Jamie is now opening a restaurant in Hong Kong, and decided to speak some Can...

Travelling The World: How Ricky Made It From New Zealand To Colombia

Hey everybody, Ricky here, ready to share of my own story with you. I hope you'll find this inspiring - it's never too late to start living!

You may remember from my first post, I was telling you some of my history - how I'm from New Zealand and I live in Colombia. Now I want to tell you about how I came here to this beautiful land of Colombia.

My story goes back about 10 years, when I turned ‘naughty Forty’. It was a time of reflection...where am I, what am I doing, where do I see myself in...

Language Learning Website AudioLingua Provides Free Audio In 10 Languages

Hey guys, it's Kerstin here - your new editor at Fluent! Well, really I'm still just Kerstin from Fluent, the Language Learning Blog, but I want to take a second and celebrate our new writers. I hope you like their contributions so far!

Today I just want to share a website with you that I've recently discovered. It's called AudioLingua and offers free native speaker audio on everyday topics and in 10 languages. What an absolute gem.

You can search the tracks by language, level, gender of the sp...

Language Teaching Tools: Kiwiprofessor Talks About Online Platform Gibbon

Hi everyone, How’ve you been?...what’ve you been up to?

I’ve been busy doing different things, in the classroom, on the Net, you know how it is. The world's been busy too, hasn’t it…let's look some of the news:

In Venezuela, there is oil to burn, but you have to queue for hours to get a roll of toilet paper
In Thailand, the debates are as complex and heated as a Thai curry.
In beautiful Turkey, East meets West but never the twain shall meet.
Facebook buys Whatsapp for a King's ransom.
Mexican/US fo...

English is My Native Language - And Here's Why I Learn 3 Others Too.

[ed.] Welcome to Angel Armstead, one of the new writers at Fluent. This is her first post, a fascinating story of how this American realised how much fun other languages are. Her language combination is awesome: Japanese, Mandarin, Russian!

I Speak English So I Don't Need Another Language

Growing up I didn’t hear much about learning a foreign language. I did hear these sentiments expressed:

“I speak English so I don’t need another language”

“If you want to speak to me, speak English” or

“T...

Vlog: My Progress in Russian and My Book In Print

Hello everybody, Kerstin here -

there's been so much going on in my life and online that I actually have some stuff to show you! See what I've been up to in this short video blog, featuring:

A bit of Russian that I know, complete with the transcripts in Cyrillic
How I like to learn languages
The first EVER copy of Fluency Made Achievable in print

Can I just point out that

a) Russian in 10 Minutes a Day is not a grammar book - it's mostly useful for getting a foundation, and great for practising Cy...