Stay Curious, Stay Young: The Power of Lifelo...

There are three stages of comprehension in any new language. Early on, you barely understand anything — and that's fine. The goal at that stage isn't comprehension; it's letting your brain pick up the patterns. Then comes the long middle stretch where you're learning words but li ...  Show more

I've been chipping away at Arabic for years, and I recently sat down with Hasan Alhamwi, the founder of Arabic All The Time. He left a career in civil engineering to build the largest library of Arabic comprehensible input on the internet. We talked about why videos beat textbook ...  Show more

Bienvenue dans Passerelles, un podcast pensé pour éveiller la curiosité des apprenantes et des apprenants de français.

Dans chaque épisode, je partage avec vous une question inspirée par les podcasts que j'écoute, par mes lectures. Et tout simplement par des choses qui ...

Today I have a different kind of episode for you, so you’re not going to be learning Portuguese, but maybe this is interesting to you nonetheless. I get asked quite a lot how I’ve learned English, so I’m sharing with you how I learned English and German! 

I’ve learned a lot this week, everything from appreciating being young to understanding that sometimes you’re wrong. I think we could all gain from learning a little something new and I wanted to share these lessons with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices ...  Show more

There are two big ways to learn: 

Active learning: Someone tells you what to learn, how to learn it, on a set schedule, on pre-selected standardized topics.

Passive learning: You let your mind wander with no intended destination. You read and learn ...