A practical way of learning a language for business

Many people start learning a language for business reasons. It might be that they have new clients from other countries or maybe they want to be transferred to a branch of their company in another country.

Whether you’re an engineer, lawyer or stock broker, when you’re learning a language for business it’s important to sound professional [...]

When's the best time to study a language?

Whether you’re an early-riser or a night owl, we all have or own favourite time to study. I find that I tend to remember things best if I learn them in the morning then think about them periodically throughout the day. However, I have friends who say they find the best time to study a [...]

Am I too old to learn a language?

Let me tell you a story. About five years ago, when I first started teaching online, I met a student who was eighty-three years old. Yes 83! I was intrigued as to why she was learning a language at this stage in life so I asked her when she had begun learning. This is her [...]

Time to learn Portuguese online

Why should you start learning Portuguese? Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? Brazil is going to be hosting the Olympics in 2016 and if you start learning Portuguese now, you’ll be speaking like a native before you even get there!

Even if you’re not going to the Olympics, there are still a lot of great reasons to [...]

How well do you know your own language?

We all know how to speak at least one language fluently. Our native language is the language we speak from birth and we all have one. Even people who are born completely deaf can become native-speaker of a sign language. Some very lucky people are born into a family of mixed cultures and have two [...]