A little while ago, I had a language learning study buddy.We met each other in a Discord server.What was cool about this person is that they were studying Esperanto and Spanish, similar to me.So, on the surface, it seemed like we were a good match.Un...
I was hanging out in a Discord server and the topic of tracking your language learning time got brought up. During the discussion, one person mentioned that many people who reached their desired level in their language usually stopped tracking. It's...
When many people hear about Esperanto for the first time, one of the first things people usually say is that Esperanto is easy to learn.But, is that true? As someone who's been learning Esperanto for a little over a year now, I can tell you that Espe...
As mentioned in previous emails, I'm learning Esperanto, Spanish, and French at the same time.For some people, this may seem a little strange.Not so much that I'm learning multiple languages simultaneously (although that in itself could be an entire...
I came across a Reddit post the other day which referenced a discussion in another forum about a 30-year-old guy running a grocery store in a small town in China. The guy had asked if it was worth it for him to learn English. This is a very interesti...
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”-- Ludwig WittgensteinGrowing up, all I knew was English. I spoke English at home. I watched English TV.I read English books.And so on and so forth. On the surface, this doesn't seem like a big...
We all know that learning a language is a very personal journey. Even if 2 people are learning the same languages, chances are their motivations for learning them are quite different. For example, 2 people might be learning Spanish but one of them is...
Clozemaster and Duolingo are 2 prominent apps in the language learning space. In fact, they came out within a few years of one another. Duolingo became publicly available in 2012 while Clozemaster launched in 2016.Since then, each one of them have bu...
As some of you know, I was a monolingual for the better part of my life. But it didn't have to be that away. In fact, I came from a multilingual household. My father speaks Haitian Creole and English and my mother speaks Mauritian Creole, Haitian Cre...
