What speaking 8 languages actually looks like (feat. ‪@gabrielunlocks‬)

Should you focus on words or grammar? Here's how I approach grammar as an input-based learner, and why most corrections never stick.

I was with some Canadians recently who all agreed that French would help them professionally. Within a few minutes I had heard three reasons why they hadn't learned it: I can read but I can't speak, the Montreal accent is too hard, and they changed our class this year. Every one of those puts the p…

Friction is what reduces our enjoyment of language learning, so in this video I go through the nine forms it takes and what I do about each one.

I have somewhere between 60 and 70 shelves of books in this house, well over a thousand of them, in several languages, and I have finally started cataloguing the lot. Going through them reminded me why paper still matters to me. The research is fairly clear that we retain more from paper than from …