Have you ever wondered how many languages there are in the world? I asked friends to give me a quick answer without looking up on Google or Wikipedia: most of them gave me a number between 100 and 200… The reasoning was simple: most people know that in the world there are about 200 states, […]
Let’s be clear: if you want to learn a language, you must be ready to make many mistakes! Mistakes are part of the process and are often an opportunity to improve. But there are some types of mistakes made by almost everyone who wants to learn a language, and if you avoid making them, you […]
Today the world of language courses is dominated by courses that promise you can learn a foreign language fast, in a month, in three months, with ease and so on. Let’s face it, if the course was called “The patient approach to language learning,” or “Learn a language in two years”, maybe no one would […]
Imagine the scene: the holiday you’ve been waiting for a year has finally come, you land at your destination airport, the customs officers stops you and tells you something… and you panic! “What does he want? They want to arrest me? I haven’t done anything!” Before it even started, your holiday has turned into a […]
In the Polyglot Community, both online and in real life, there is no need to explain who Alex Rawlings is… And it is amazing to see what he has accomplished at such a young age. Not only if you consider the number of languages that he speaks, but also considering the community that he was […]
Let’s face it: if I ask you if you want to learn a foreign language, you will tell me “yes”, right away. Everyone wants to learn a foreign language, to communicate with foreign friends or with locals when you travel. So why haven’t you started yet? Or maybe you started already, but you gave up […]
After English and Spanish, Portuguese was the third language that I tried to learn. It was in 2004 and it was mainly because, speaking Spanish already, I had the impression that Portuguese was quite similar to it, so I thought it would not be very difficult to learn. At the time, I […]
I learned Dutch a few years ago. I wanted to learn Dutch, because I already spoke English and German, so I thought Dutch would not be too difficult. And yes, for me it was not as difficult as for example German, but not too easy. Dutch as a foreign language is not […]
I speak Neapolitan because I’m from Naples, I was born and raised here and I still live here. Like all Neapolitans I was born bilingual, and already since we are little kids we differentiate between Italian and Neapolitan: at home, there are families who only speak Neapolitan, others who only speak Italian, […]
I started to learn Greek two years ago, because I’m from Naples and I decided to learn more about the history of my city, which was founded by the Greeks. I thought that if I want to know the history of Naples, I also have to understand a bit of Greek. Two […]
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