Hi! If you’ve previously spent time learning languages, you know what a language learning plateau feels like. If you are just starting to learn another language, you’ll know soon enough. Basically a language learning plateau is when you stop learning the language as...
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How to Memorize the Colors (or any word!) in Portuguese Faster
As Cores Learning in context is the fastest way to learn vocabulary words in a foreign language. By combining listening, reading, and speaking new words within complete sentences, you’ll learn Portuguese faster. Deliberate practice is one of the 6 research-backed...
Why Language Learning in the US is Broken
If you're going to do something, do it right. Unfortunately, language learning is rarely done right. In the United States, it's especially broken. Billions of dollars and millions of hours spent a year with very little to show for it. High school classes, free mobile...
Foreign language fluency heals prejudice and narrow-mindedness
Mark Twain said it well: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all...
3 Unique Immersion Hacks: Portuguese Fluency from Home
Learn Faster: Be Immersed in Portuguese from Home People love to say that the best way to learn a language is through immersion. While immersion is one component to fluency, you won't magically become fluent in Portuguese just by moving to Brazil. Combining...
Quarantine is a growth opportunity. Emerge speaking a foreign language.
I don't remember where I first heard the term "Monk Mode", but it has stuck with me ever since. The idea behind it is just that there are times and seasons in life when the best thing to do is to eliminate social interaction and other distractions and really focus on...
The Gingerbread Man: Portuguese Audio Story
O Boneco de Gengibre The Gingerbread Man in Portuguese With English Translation Listening to children's stories in Portuguese is a great way to learn Portuguese and improve your listening comprehension. Follow along as a native Parley Blue language coach reads...
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