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Why Listening in Language Learning is the Most Underrated Skill

17 January 2025

Why Listening in Language Learning is the Most Underrated Skill

When it comes to mastering a new language, many learners focus on speaking, writing, or grammar drills, while overlooking the importance of listening.

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Language Learning in 2025: Tips to Stay on Track

7 January 2025

Language Learning in 2025: Tips to Stay on Track

As we step into 2025, it’s the perfect time to rethink your approach to language learning.

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Effective Vocabulary Memorization

18 December 2024

Effective Vocabulary Memorization

If you’ve ever spent hours flipping through flashcards or drilling vocabulary lists, only to find yourself forgetting the words days later, you’re not alone.

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How to Personalize Language Lessons for Each Student?

18 December 2024

How to Personalize Language Lessons for Each Student?

Personalization is more than a buzzword in language learning; it’s the only way to get great engagement and greater learning results.

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How to Use Real-Life Scenarios for Language Learning?

18 December 2024

How to Use Real-Life Scenarios for Language Learning?

Learning a foreign language is an exciting journey that comes with its challenges.

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Job Hunting Tips for Bilingual and Multilingual Candidates

18 December 2024

Job Hunting Tips for Bilingual and Multilingual Candidates

In today’s global job market, the demand for individuals who can speak multiple languages is growing.

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How to Learn Languages as an Immigrant?

18 December 2024

How to Learn Languages as an Immigrant?

Learn languages as an immigrant. Discover strategies and tools to learn a new language and ease your transition into a new country.

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18 December 2024

Language Learning Metrics Are Holding You Back

Finding the best way to track your journey can be exhausting. The traditional options might look the most attractive, but they have their hidden surprises.

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How to Learn Spanish from Video?

18 December 2024

How to Learn Spanish from Video?

Very few language learning mediums allow you to immerse yourself in the native speaker experience, with visual context and body language accompanying the language.

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What is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)?

18 December 2024

What is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)?

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) teaches content in the target language, allowing learners to acquire the language through the material rather than through direct language instruction.

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Can You Learn a Second Language from Songs?

18 December 2024

Can You Learn a Second Language from Songs?

How about improving your foreign language learning simply by listening to songs and music?

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How to Go From Intermediate to Advanced Language Level

18 December 2024

How to Go From Intermediate to Advanced Language Level

Have you hit a foreign language roadblock? Were you making great strides with your language learning at the beginning only to hit a brick wall?

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How Do You Immerse Yourself in a Foreign Language From Home?

18 December 2024

How Do You Immerse Yourself in a Foreign Language From Home?

Immersive learning is often claimed to be one of the most effective methods of learning a foreign language.

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How to Learn Two Languages at Once: Tips & Strategies

16 December 2024

How to Learn Two Languages at Once: Tips & Strategies

The idea of learning two languages simultaneously might seem both exciting and daunting.

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How do Children and Adults Learn Languages?

16 December 2024

How do Children and Adults Learn Languages?

Language learning is often viewed as a race where children are naturally faster and more successful than adults.

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Break From the Language Learning Plateau As Intermediate Learners

12 December 2024

Break From the Language Learning Plateau As Intermediate Learners

If you’ve ever felt stuck in your language-learning journey—where progress seems painfully slow despite your efforts—you’re not alone.

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When Can I Finally Start Speaking My Target Language?

4 December 2024

When Can I Finally Start Speaking My Target Language?

Learning to speak a new language is an exciting but daunting milestone.

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Can You Have a Language Learning Routine?

4 December 2024

Can You Have a Language Learning Routine?

For many language learners, creating a routine feels like the key to progress.

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The Most Effective Ways to Memorise Vocabulary

28 November 2024

The Most Effective Ways to Memorise Vocabulary

If you’ve ever sat down with a vocabulary list, painstakingly repeating words over and over, only to forget them days later, you’re not alone.

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Why You Can’t Understand Native Speakers

28 November 2024

Why You Can’t Understand Native Speakers

Mastering a language takes time and effort, but even after years of study, understanding native speakers can feel like cracking a secret code.

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How to Learn Languages According to Research

28 November 2024

How to Learn Languages According to Research

Learning languages can feel like a monumental challenge. For many, fluency often seems like an unreachable goal.

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How Important is Nonverbal Communication in Language Learning?

12 October 2024

How Important is Nonverbal Communication in Language Learning?

Next time you’re working with flashcards and performing drills in a language class—or using one of the many language learning apps that teach vocabulary,…

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What Is The Second Language Acquisition Theory?

12 October 2024

What Is The Second Language Acquisition Theory?

Stephen Krashen’s theories of second language acquisition throw many of the old language-learning theories on their head.

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10 October 2024

10 Tips for Learning a Foreign Language From YouTube Video

Immersing yourself in YouTube videos is a great choice.

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10 October 2024

6 Active and Passive Ways to Enhance Video Language-Learning

Learning a foreign language from videos is a well-established way to ramp up your learning efforts — especially if you’re trying to master a language.

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3 October 2024

Benefits of Subtitled Video for Learning a New Language

Unless you’re already fluent in a foreign language, you’re probably going to need subtitles to watch a movie, TV program or other video in the language you’re learning.

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The Affective Filter Hypothesis for Learning a Foreign Language 

3 October 2024

The Affective Filter Hypothesis for Learning a Foreign Language 

If you’re learning a foreign language and have never heard of Stephen Krashen, it’s time to get acquainted, especially with a concept named the Affective Filter Hypothesis.

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2 October 2024

How Important is Grammar When Learning a Language?

Why does Steve Kaufmann, the Canadian polyglot who can speak 20 languages, say “Do NOT study grammar”?

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Ways to Learn a Language Through Movies

30 September 2024

Ways to Learn a Language Through Movies

The use of video for learning languages is an effective addition to a modern language learner’s toolkit.

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What Types of Videos are Best for Language Learning?

30 September 2024

What Types of Videos are Best for Language Learning?

The power of video for enhancing language learning is well established. But are all videos in the target language good to learn from?

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28 September 2024

How to Learn a Language Effectively According to the Research…

Is there a way to learn a language effectively?

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28 September 2024

How Teachers Can Use AI to Improve Language Lessons

Over 180 million people already use ChatGPT and a proportion of these will, no doubt, learn a language with ChatGPT at some point.

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9 Ways to Build More Fluency When Learning a Foreign Language

28 September 2024

9 Ways to Build More Fluency When Learning a Foreign Language

When learning a language, most people start by gathering the “building blocks” together: understanding the basic grammar rules, vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation and so on.

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Four Modern Language Learning Theories

28 September 2024

Four Modern Language Learning Theories

If you’re learning a new language, it helps to start from the right place and have confidence in the methods you’re using.

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5 Simple Ways AI Can Help You Learn a Language (With Tools)

28 September 2024

5 Simple Ways AI Can Help You Learn a Language (With Tools)

Do you think you’d be more fluent in your second language if you had a native-speaking teacher with you at all times to guide you?

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Top 10 Easiest Languages to Learn in 2024

28 September 2024

Top 10 Easiest Languages to Learn in 2024

If you’re looking for a language that you can master as close as possible to native speaker level in the shortest amount of time, it helps if it’s not one of the toughest languages on the planet!

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Factors Affecting How Quickly You Learn A Language

28 September 2024

Factors Affecting How Quickly You Learn A Language

You might not like the answer to the question of how long it takes to learn a foreign language. Why? Because it depends.

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How Do You Learn a Language to Native Speaker Level?

28 September 2024

How Do You Learn a Language to Native Speaker Level?

To reach a native speaker level in a language, one or more of the following must apply: Given that most people reading this won’t be able to achieve numbers…

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Foreign Language Learning: Why Grammar Translation Doesn’t Work?

28 September 2024

Foreign Language Learning: Why Grammar Translation Doesn’t Work?

The grammar-translation foreign language learning method is highly unlikely to get any language learner beyond the beginner stage.

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7 Ways to Use Video For Language Learning

28 September 2024

7 Ways to Use Video For Language Learning

Have you been recommended to use video for language learning but not sure where to start?

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Why Does Language Learning Through Videos Work?

26 September 2024

Why Does Language Learning Through Videos Work?

In this article, we will find out whether language learning through videos will help you start speaking like a native speaker.

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5 Ways to Learn Languages with Native Speakers

26 September 2024

5 Ways to Learn Languages with Native Speakers

If you’re learning French and aspiring to a high level of fluency, nothing will beat a trip to Paris and a few days speaking nothing but French in the…

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How Language Teachers Can Make Money On YouTube?

26 September 2024

How Language Teachers Can Make Money On YouTube?

One of the side benefits of the lockdowns and work restrictions that most of us experienced at some point in recent years was the creative new ways people…

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What Is The Best Language Learning Method?

26 September 2024

What Is The Best Language Learning Method?

Whether you’re struggling to make strides with a foreign language or you’re a teacher looking for better results from your students, it may be time to…

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Do Language Learning Apps Really Work?

26 September 2024

Do Language Learning Apps Really Work?

People often say the best way to learn a foreign language is to have a language tutor with you all day, helping you immerse in the language, correct…

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Can You Learn a Foreign Language Without a Teacher?

21 September 2024

Can You Learn a Foreign Language Without a Teacher?

It probably won’t surprise you that a child easily absorbs a language and uses it naturally simply by being exposed to it.

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Why Flashcards Fail: Language Learning Faster with Netflix

18 September 2024

Why Flashcards Fail: Language Learning Faster with Netflix

Why should you replace language learning flashcards with a Netflix subscription or, alternatively, more time on YouTube?

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You Should Stop Learning a Second Language,Instead “Acquire” It!

18 September 2024

You Should Stop Learning a Second Language,Instead “Acquire” It!

People who want to master a second language should stop trying to learn it!

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ChatGPT Language Learning: Practical Tips

18 September 2024

ChatGPT Language Learning: Practical Tips

Learning a new language can be a challenging and rewarding experience.

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How to use LangMagic extension?

17 September 2024

How to use LangMagic extension?

1) Click on the “Install for free” button on the langmagic.com website or follow our link in the Chrome Google Store.

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British English VS American English

17 September 2024

British English VS American English

The majority of the world’s population speaks English, which is also the most extensively studied foreign language and the official language of 53 countries.

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