In the three previous parts of our “The four cornerstones of language learning” blog series, we have given tips on how to improve your foreign language listening, reading and writing skills. This is the final part of the blog series, and it covers what may be the most difficult part of language learning: speaking. Speaking a foreign language may feel scary, but there’s no need to be too nervous about it. When you are travelling and talking to locals, they…
”I got a three-month gift card for WordDive as a Christmas present from my brother. I chose to use it for German – it used to be my favorite language in school, but I haven’t really used it since. I have now been using WordDive for a bit over a month and have managed to complete 7 courses and over 700 permanently learned study items. Learning with WordDive has been simple and extremely addictive. In the exercises, you need to…
Having language skills means being able to both understand and produce language by writing and speaking. In this third part of our blog series, we will focus our attention on writing. Even though I definitely encourage you to actually start speaking the language you are learning from day one, it might feel too scary. Writing might seem like a safer option, and that’s completely okay. In fact, it can be a really good idea to write down some simple scripts…
Today we will continue with our blog series “The four cornerstones of language learning”. The previous part of the series focused on improving listening comprehension, and today we will dig into reading. Reading helps you to comprehend many aspects of language. You will learn different sentence structures and typical expressions from different texts. This happens unconsciously, and will also help you with listening and writing skills as the structures of the language become second nature. If you want to improve your…
