I have come across a news article suggesting that just listening to the language without even understanding it is enough to help you learn it. First of all, I don’t quite think so. Why? Well, there are at least three reasons.
First of all, where’s the evidence? There’s an article, okay, that’s a start. What about , experiments with control groups, explanations how exactly that works (what parts of the brain are involved in this and why exactly this happens)? I don’t …

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What’s the proper way to teach something? This is the question that I have been thinking about lately and I will give my take about it. But, first of all, talking about forms of teaching, I think the best for the  student is a 1:1 student-teacher ratio. That means that it’s better to just have one student with each teacher. Why? Well, because that way the student has to be most attentive, he gets to actively participate more and there can …

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What’s the point in learning foreign languages? Communication, sure. But usually if you try hard you can get by without that. Or you can get by with English. I kinda like languages is not about motivation. The “kinda like” part implies that you already have the necessary motivation. But I still want this to be about everything… so I’m going to talk about some less obvious reasons for learning languages apart from communication.
Do languages represent a different way of …

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Here in this blog I’m going to talk about things related with “I Kinda Like Languages” (duh!) and  hopefully I will also throw in a quite a bit of other thoughts and ideas.  To make sure you understand what I am talking about, here’s a short summary of what this all means.
I like languages and I want to know many of them. Oftentimes I’d begin learning new languages while still not being perfect in the ones I had previously been …

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