The office was quiet this Monday morning. The LingQ staff shuffled in, heads down, glancing over at the empty table in the middle of the room before turning on their …
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 …
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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.
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Can You Learn Multiple Languages at the Same Time?
Are you the kind of language learner who is deep into Swedish one week then thinking about learning Greek the next? You’re not alone. It’s human nature to be curious, …
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LingQ Academy Catch Up: Keep on Climbing
It’s been a busy few weeks for our students! They’ve been pitching to the media, climbing mountains, testing the new version of LingQ, blogging, creating infographics, enjoying the Vancouver sun (all four days of it so far this summer) and, of course, doing tons of reading, listening and writing on LingQ.
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18 Polyglots Reveal Their Language Learning Eureka Moments
We all have them, those “aha!” moments when the mists of uncertainty part and we finally understand. Archimedes’ moment apparently had him running through the streets of Syracuse naked (he had …
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LingQ Academy Week 6: New Twitter Accounts
To give Tamás, Emily and Hanna practice with engaging with the startup and language learning communities on another social media channel, we had them sign up for Twitter accounts. Twitter is a great platform for finding like-minded people, and for making connections. They spent part of week six building a presence on Twitter: following people, liking and retweeting content and finding great content online to share to their new connections. Want to know what they get up to outside of the office, what their favourite thing about Vancouver is, or if they secretly hate us? Tweet them!
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LingQ Academy Week 5: The Students Become the Teachers
Week five saw Emily, Tamás and Hanna create new LingQ accounts and pay close attention to the way we onboard users. Onboarding is the process websites and apps use to increase the chance that a visitor will be successful on their site.
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LingQ Academy Week 4: The Sting of Rejection
Rejection. It’s something startup PR and marketing people get used to.
Sometimes you think you’ve written the perfect pitch to an editor or journalist. You’ve read their articles, you understand the audience they appeal to, you’ve reached out on Twitter and suggested a story you’re sure they’ll be interested in. A week goes by and nothing; no response to your “killer pitch”. You send a follow up email, then another a week later. Still nothing.
We wanted to protect our students from the pain of rejection, but we knew they would have to experience it sooner or later. It’s par for the course in the startup world.
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How to import and study ebooks on LingQ
Once you are an intermediate or advanced learner of a language, a great way to continue to improve and to grow your fluency and vocabulary level is by reading books …
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