Are you learning Spanish, a great way to improve your listening skills is by listening audiobooks in Spanish. They are a great way to get familiar with the sounds, pick up new vocabulary, and a fun way to build language learning into your daily life. Why Audiobooks? Books are great for language learning. But I’d …
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Have you ever tried using Spanish audiobooks to improve your language skills? Why Audiobooks? Books are great for language learning. But I’d argue audiobooks might actually be more beneficial. Sitting down to read a book in a language you don’t quite understand yet can be challenging and difficult to do on a consistent basis. With …
Learning a language while binging things on Netflix? Sign me up! Improving your foreign language skills through the arts of movies and tv shows is not only very fun – it is also very effective and useful. Why learn a language through series? The themes that are featured in movies are often very telling of …
Before reading this please find yourself a salt shaker, and take a pinch. We are not saying that these struggles are exclusive to the Spanish language, nor that these should keep you from learning it. We at The Foreign Language Collective try to be there for you in your language learning process, and that means we …
We all know every language has their own words, but even sounds are described differently around the world! Here is a list of 35 languages and how they translate the “knock knock” sound. Albanian – “Tak Tak” Arabic (Morocco) – “Dak Dak” Arabic (Syria) – “Taq Taq” / “Taa Taa” Bulgarian – ” чук …
Learning a new language is always difficult. You have to learn a completely new form of expressing yourself. My personal experience learning this new language was quite funny. I learned Slovak language during an exchange year; so most of my learning consisted in listening to conversations and repeating the words I understood and remembered. But as …