If you are about to start a Japanese language learning journey, prepare for a challenging, but wonderful experience. Japanese is a remarkably rich, and it contains concepts that don’t even …
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 …
Smash Your Language Listening Goals with These Tips
Listening goals seem to be the hardest to meet, especially for those of us in 90-Day Challenges. I get it, it’s hard to find the time to get those listening …
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? …
The New LingQ 4.0 Mobile App is here!
Since we first launched a LingQ app for iOS way back in 2010, it’s been a very popular add-on to our web functionality. The new LingQ 4.0 app for iOS …
10 Common Mistakes in English Even Native Speakers Make
English is hard even for native speakers. It seems that everyone makes a mistake here and there, no matter how long they’ve been studying. And you know something, that’s OK. Mistakes …
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 …
Stephen Krashen: What Can We Learn From His Theory?
There are lots of theories when it comes to how we learn language. In fact, the world of linguistics was rocked recently with the overturning Noam Chomsky’s Universal Grammar Theory. …
How Long Does it Take to Learn a Language?
Language learning depends mostly on three factors: motivation, time and the right attitude. If you have all three, congratulations! You’re going to reach your language learning goals. But how long …
The Benefits of the T.P.R.S Method
The LingQ method promotes lots of reading and listening input, and so it works well in classroom settings where an input method is used. One such input method that is becoming increasingly popular in language classrooms around the world is TPRS.