Learning the common words is one of the first things I do when learning a new language. And that’s because some polyglots theorize that you can be considered fluent around 10,000 words. Here’s a study set I found on the 1000 most common French words! The post 1000 Most Common French Words appeared first on Nai Likes Languages ..read more

“How do you have time to study languages when you work five days a week,” my coworker asked me last week. Little did she know that I’m also a full-time student, and I run this website part time. All things considered, I pretty much have a 60 hour work week, but I wouldn’t trade it in for anything. So how do I find the time to study Portuguese while working, going to school, and running a website? It’s actually not super hard. 1. Make it a habit If you study languages with a full-time job like me, you know that finding time can be hard, but since you’ve set your S.M.A.R.T. language ..read more

Being that it’s the end of June, I’ve already jotted down my language goals for July 2019, and one of them was to improve my pronunciation in Portuguese. For the past six months, my reading and writing has continuously improved, and I’ve gotten pretty confident in my language learning skills. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I think I got a little bit too comfortable in my language level. For that reason, I’ve decided to push myself a bit and focus on my speaking and listening skills moving forward. Of course, I have smaller goals this too, but this is just another tool I use ..read more

It’s time to stop stressing out about how hard it is to learn a new language, and just start learning the language. At the end of the day, no amount of swimming method books is going to replace the experience of jumping in the pool for the first time, so let’s dive! 1. Change your phone’s system language. Whether you’re glued to your phone or just have it for show, you are bound to pick up some basic, yet useful, vocabulary from such a simple tactic. Especially since verbs like “delete” and “forward” didn’t really come up in my studies much. I also never officially learned the days o ..read more

It’s been six months, and you’re tired of studying conjugations, listening to children’s songs, and drilling vocabulary. I get it! After I come home from work and write a five page paper on price elasticity, I just want to give up on responsibility and live in the wild. Luckily, I’ve set up ways to stay motivated in my Portuguese journey, and I haven’t quit yet! Before I tell you how I did that, I feel like it’s important to mention that this should be fun for you. We all get tired from time to time but if you find that you’re continuously forcing yourself to study your target language ..read more

Whenever someone tells me that they’re learning a new language, I get so nervous that they’ll make the same mistakes I did. I read all of the blogs and articles and books on language learning, but I just had to do things my own way and ignore the proven methods of success. Don’t be like me. I’ve made some pretty stupid mistakes these past four months, and I’ve watched other language learners make them too. Here are the five biggest ones I want you to avoid. 1. Not Speaking From Day One Benny Lewis of Fluent In Three Months stresses the importance of speaking from day one, but I di ..read more

Learning Portuguese has been an incredible journey for me, but I eventually got to a point where I wasn’t having much fun anymore. Your language learning skills will stall at some point, and you will not learn new things as often. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. After all, you don’t learn ten new vocabulary words in your native language every day, do you? (If you do, that’s great.) Since I wasn’t learning as much Portuguese everyday, I wasn’t as motivated to keep going. I had to find things to keep me interested in the language, because I wanted to see this through until the end. I ..read more