Where do the people who use The Linguist come from? It’s always interesting to check our site statistics and find out: The top few countries are: Japan Canada United States Germany China United Kingdom (Great Britain) Italy Switzerland France Indi…

I love Wikipedia. In case you’ve never heard of it, it’s an encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers. Anyone who knows something about something is welcome to add to the Wikipedia … even you! One page worth checking is the page explaining the…

I just learned yesterday that Tony, one of our learners from Taiwan, is going to be starting his own blog detailing his experiences and insights about learning English. Since Tony’s in Taiwan, he’s going to blog mostly in Chinese. I assume this me…

Steve Kaufmann, one of the founders of The Linguist, writes a linguistics and language-learning blog. I keep in touch with it, of course, and check his posts frequently. But there was a post half a month ago that I missed a critical piece of. It’s…

There are three very common reasons to learn English that I’m running into over and over. for business for school (college, etc.) sheer pleasure I’m starting to think about the first more and more, as many people learn English in order to do busin…

I guess people are buying too many. Or something like that. Anyways, we need more. Books, that is. Steve is re-releasing his book. However, since he – and the company – are in quite a different place now than when he originally wrote it, Steve wan…

Steve Kaufmann, one of the founders of The Linguist, recently attended a language learning conference in Germany. One of the ideas he came back with from one of the workshops was that not all failure in communication across cultures is language-ba…

At The Linguist, we’re now starting to attack the local market here in Vancouver … and in fact in any North American city with a sizable immigrant population. Our system can really help businesses that would like their employees to speak not jus…

Oooh! Ahhhh! Pretty pictures! Colorful graphs! It’s always interesting to see where people are coming from when they are visiting The Linguist Community Blog. I checked the stats this evening and this is the summary: What that beautiful pie chart …

In my continuing quest to find blogs that deal with learning English, I’ve turned up the Language Log. This one is a little different, however. It’s actually a blog by a number of linguists, and they debate the fine (and the really, really fine) p…