This week I thought I’d write something a little different. As you may know by now, I write this blog to keep myself – and hopefully anyone who reads it …
The Four Language Skills and How to Improve Them
In order to master a language there are four skills you need to focus on: listening, reading, speaking and writing. Some learners prefer to only read a language and never …
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The 1000 Word Challenge
A few years ago the British Council started a project called the 1000 word challenge. They did this in the hope that more people in Britain would try to learn at …
LingQ’s Steve Kaufmann Reaches 100,000 YouTube Subscribers!
LingQ co-founder Steve Kaufmann has a nickname in the language learning community: The Godfather. He earned it by being one of the first to build a presence online via his popular …
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Learning Languages Online is Easy With the New LingQ Browser Extensions!
Learning languages online opens you up to a world of new blogs, news sites, TV shows, books, movies and more. Having the goal of watching a movie or reading a …
How to Expand Your Vocabulary in Your Target Language
There are many schools of thought on how to expand your vocabulary in a language you’re learning. Should you try to memorize lists of words and their variations with flashcards? …
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Best Language Learning Content of 2016
A little motivation goes a long way when learning a new language. We can get this motivation from many different places: books, teachers, friends and family who speak the language we …
Learn a Language Fast with These Productivity Techniques
Here’s a number: 525,600. Can you guess its significance? I’ll give you a clue, it relates to time. That huge number is how many minutes there are in a year. …
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Learn English Through Stories
Who doesn’t love a good scare? Well, actually some don’t. I suggest if you’re one of those scaredy cats, you stop reading right now because things are about to get down right spooky! Reading and listening along is one of the best ways to learn English, and on LingQ you can translate words and phrases as you go.
To celebrate Halloween, we’ve put together a list of some the creepiest content we have in the English library on LingQ. So lock the doors, curl up on the sofa and prepare to be scared.
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Which Language Learning Style Suits Your Personality?
Are you a defender, an entertainer or a mediator? Those of you well-versed in personality testing will know what I’m getting at: the 16 Myers-Briggs types. If you haven’t heard …
