Do you know the feeling when you try to come up with a reasonable sentence and pronounce it as eloquently as possible, and at the same time your brain is buzzing with grammar rules and your heart is pounding as if you were running a marathon? For me this is a familiar feeling, especially in situations where I try to speak a language for the first time outside of the classroom. Especially if the person I am talking to is…
Essi Pohto, a Finnish pedagogy student, is WordDive’s own polyglot who is fluent in four languages. She is working as a summer intern at WordDive and will graduate as a teacher of English, Italian and German next year. She also speaks some Russian and French. – Languages have always been present in my life. I was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for the first eight years of my life. Later we spent several years in Central and Southern…
You can study languages at school for years without ever really learning to speak them. Even if you know a lot of words and understand the basics of grammar (in theory), conversational fluency can seem like a million miles away. This post includes some of our best tips, tricks and self-study techniques that will help you learn a foreign language in the most natural, easy and entertaining way. Language learning podcasts One of the best way to test your skills in practice is…
When you are an adult, making new friends feels somehow harder. Your life spins around the same things everyday: work, groceries, home, gym, and the same all over again. Most of the old friends have spread around the country and around the world looking for a job or love. It’s become difficult to start conversations with strangers. Where could you even meet new people? When you are on vacation, the mood is more relaxed: you are smiling more and there’s a…
