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Putting Your Languages to Work: How Languages Can Fund Your Travels Around the World Posted by Jakob Gibbons on Feb 10, 2016 in Archived Posts
Proficiency in a foreign language is more than a line on your resume or an impressive party trick—it’s a ticket to self-funded world travel. Most people think that you need to be a translator or language teacher to make a living off your languages, but the opportunities hardly end there. While those are both great…
6 Tips For Making Language Learning Fly By Posted by Malachi Rempen on Feb 8, 2016 in Archived Posts
Nothing worth doing is fast or easy. Language learners know this better than most people, I’d wager. You spend all day agonizing over nuances in grammar, trying to memorize obscure and hard-to-remember vocabulary, and attempting to get as much opportunity to speak as humanly possible so you can make those mistakes and get over them…
Pushing Past the Language Learning Plateau Posted by Malachi Rempen on Feb 3, 2016 in Archived Posts
I gotta admit, lately I’ve been feeling a little out of the language-learning loop. With a new job, my marriage coasting well through its second year, and a cat that gets bothered when I move any furniture around, I feel like I’m settling into a routine. Sadly, that routine doesn’t really involve any new languages…
American Football Crash Course for Football “Un-Fans” Posted by Transparent Language on Jan 27, 2016 in Archived Posts
Here at Transparent Language, we’re all about learning new languages, new cultures, and (considering we live in New England) new sports! With the Super Bowl fast approaching, maybe it’s time for you to brush up on your football (or should we say American football) knowledge. Even if you’re not a sports fan, you’re probably going to…
Your Results May Vary: How Differently Your Language Learning Will Be Received Posted by Malachi Rempen on Jan 20, 2016 in Archived Posts
I know, I know; that’s not fair to the French. Not fair at all! But how’s a humorist like me supposed to make an easy joke without sweeping generalizations and broad stereotypes? Actually, it might be true for Parisians, that they look down on you for even attempting their language. I’ve had that experience more than once…
How to Wake a Sleeping Language Posted by Jakob Gibbons on Jan 18, 2016 in Archived Posts
You always hear about it happening to other people. The pain; the heartwrenching sense of loss. But surely it could never happen to you, you who has worked so diligently at mastering multiple languages, pouring so much of yourself into them and letting them pour so much of themselves into you. Surely you will never…
Better Learning Through Visuals Posted by Malachi Rempen on Jan 13, 2016 in Archived Posts
I’m a visual guy. This may not come as a surprise to you, if you know that I draw comics and illustrate books and make films and take lots of photographs when I travel. Sight is without a doubt my most precious sense. I would rather be deprived of my senses of taste, feeling, hearing and smell…