Guides, tips, and science-backed insights for language learners.
Two years ago, "AI language learning" meant a chatbot that corrected your spelling. In 2026, it means real-time contextual translation, a personal tutor that reads the same book as…
Most people learn Spanish the hard way: drilling grammar tables, memorising isolated vocabulary lists, and repeating phrases from a textbook. After months of effort they can recite…
In 1885, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus sat alone for months, memorising and re-memorising thousands of nonsense syllables. From this unusual experiment he derived the forg…
"Japanese is one of the hardest languages for English speakers." The US Foreign Service Institute estimates 2,200 class hours to reach professional working proficiency — compared t…
French has the largest body of literature of any Romance language. Molière, Balzac, Proust, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir — the canon spans five centuries and every conceivable style.…
