Articles
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When should we start talking? Two schools of language learning
Let’s consider when we should start speaking a foreign language and what influences whether it will be easy or not. After all, it is clear that in order to master…
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What is Comprehensible Input in language learning. Stephen Krashen’s theory
Comprehensible input is language you can understand without knowing every word. Stephen Krashen's theory explained: the five hypotheses of the Monitor Model, the i+1 formula, the criticism (Swain, McLaughlin) and what it means for learning a language.
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How long does it take to learn a foreign language? And how to accelerate it with Taalhammer
I started learning English when I was still in elementary school, but it took me a long time to achieve fluency. I even had private lessons, yet some of my…
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How to remember more while learning a language. An overview of memory types, factors and mnemonics.
When I studied for exams in college, I often used the so-called “three Z’s” method: in Polish, zakuć, zdać, zapomnieć, or “cram, pass and forget.” It worked great for taking…
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What are effective principles of language learning. Effective learning can be simple
Learning a language is strenuous and demanding – after all, you have to learn a lot of new words, understand how to combine these words into sentences, and so on….