Well, I had a Greek 6 month challenge under my belt: I intended to study three months at home, and then three months in Greece. I also intended to achieve level B2, which would mean I could understand the main ideas of complex texts, interact quite fluently with native speakers and express myself fluently after these six months which seemed quite reasonable at that time. Time’s up and I give you some of my recollections of how this whole challenge …

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While learning Greek, I have discovered a number of resources along the way. I will list all the free resources here so that you can use them if you are learning Modern Greek. They will help you achieve the task. Here they are.

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There are quite a few dialects of Arabic. The question is: which dialect of Arabic should you learn if you want to communicate with as many Arabic speakers as you can? I attempt to give a summary of this question.

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The Greek alphabet has only 24 letters many of which are very easy to recognize and we happen to have borrowed an awful lot of letters from the Greek alphabet for our needs. Whether you want to learn how to read the alphabet to read some Greek signs or remember the names of the letters to impress your friends, it’s easy and worth doing. Here’s how you do it.

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This is a great moment because I have been waiting to write this for the last 3 months or so. Probably more. Also because I did not know whether I would make it. I believe I know enough Portuguese now to say that I have made it so that’s why I’m writing this now. I have managed to learn Portuguese in 5 months and I am going to tell you how I did it here.
Some background
First of all, I should …

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Russian is still a bit hard to find good resources to learn.
As for the basics of Russian… I still have no idea what is the best to use to learn the grammar. I have made a course for the Russian alphabet though so that’s a start.
When you get some basics down, there is one thing I can advise you from my experience: listen to podcasts. Podcasts are just like blogs but in audio (so they are like small private radio …

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I have not learnt Japanese that well so I’ll just give you some ideas. This is not nearly enough. This is just for the beginning.
First, start with the Carl Kenner’s Japanese audio course. Only half of if is finished so you won’t learn all you need to but chances are, you’ll find the course awesome. He uses audio and flashcards along with mnemonics to teach you basic Japanese.
Next, if you want to learn Kanji, a lot of people really …

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Note: I have told how I learnt Esperanto quite a while ago on this site. None of these advice have changed and this page is just a concize summary of them. However, I have added a few new ideas here and there which I posted here. I totally recommend you to read the old article too, though.
So, Esperanto is a cool little language which is relatively easy to learn and it opens doors for you to nice international meetings, a …

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Here I tell the story how I learned my French. Well, the story is not complete and I still plan to improve my French in the future (I have been doing that passively for a lot of time already and still haven’t taken up the task actively again). Also, I did not achieve fluency and it was just a long long way how I acquired some language. But hey, I can speak it now and I thought it might be …

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