Product What sort of progress should you expect to see from Glossika over time? Chances are, Glossika is pretty different than any other language app or textbook you might have used in the past. Our first sentences might be harder than you expected, the sentences you're seeing
Updates [Update] UI Redesign, Weekly Newsletter, and Big Ideas Summer came and went. There's only 3 months left in 2023! With both of our apps now out (iOS and Android), this is the first quarter we've spent in a long time where
Product [Update] Customizable Playlists, Android Offline Mode, and More Big things are on the horizon for Glossika.We've spent a lot of effort working on our apps over the last few years: Glossika came to iOS in 2022 and to Android in
Productivity Enforced Scarcity: What Wordle Teaches Us About Overcoming Procrastination I admit it: I'm a planner, not a doer. I procrastinate. A lot.Now, I love everything about the process of figuring out how I'm going to do something. After unraveling that mystery,
pronunciation Spanish Pronunciation: How I Learned to Roll my R's Can't roll your R's? You're not alone. It took me 8 years of goofing around to figure the sound out, personally, and it's even the last sound that native Spanish speakers acquire while
Listening Listening Comprehension Problems: Why You (Still) Can't Understand Your Target Language Listening comprehension is tough. Many intermediate learners find themselves in an uncomfortable (and disappointing) situation: they've got their language's grammar down, they can read books for fun, and having conversations is no longer
Product The Glossika Method: How We Develop Your Language Abilities Wondering what Glossika is all about or whether it could work for you? Here's a deep dive into our product and methodology. This guide will cover (click a link to jump to that
Learn Chinese Which is Harder: Japanese, Korean, or Mandarin Chinese? Last week we put out a post on differentiating (Mandarin) Chinese, Japanese, and Chinese. It was received well, but we got a lot of this sort of response: that's cool, but what I
Language Learning Tips Should You Learn Two (or More) Languages at Once? I get it. I really do.If you're learning one language, you've probably thought about learning another. (More realistically, multiple). I'm personally shooting for ten. Currently, I'm at four — Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and
Linguistics How Many Words Do You Need to Know to Speak Another Language? A vocabulary of one-thousand words would allow you to recognize nearly 80% of the words in a given English text (Nation, 2006). Imagine my thrill, a few months into learning Japanese, when I
Learn French Le Subjonctif: The French Subjunctive Made Easy Tenses make sense – we've got those in English. Conjugation can be a bit difficult, but at least that's relatively straightforward. The subjunctive, on the other hand, feels much less concrete. And what is
Culture Classical Guitar Throughout Spanish Culture: An Overview Among musical instruments that can represent the soul of a nation, nothing tops the Spanish guitar. Right up there with the red-dressed flamenco dancers and their castañuelas, the bullfighting of Seville, and the
Language Learning Tips The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Does Language Create Reality? Does it is sometimes feel difficult – impossible – to learn a new language? Perhaps grammar rules seem illogical, or vocabulary seems to be a random menagerie of sounds. Even after you learn a bit
Learn French French Object Pronouns: What They Are and How to Use Them Sentence structure is an important part of language, and French is no different. Sentences in French are constructed methodically, often beginning with the subject of a sentence, followed by a verb and finally
Learn Chinese 會, 能, and 可以: How To Say "Can" in Mandarin Chinese One of the particularly difficult aspects of learning another language is that it may recognize distinctions between concepts that your native language ignores. This means that it is important to think about the
