Linguistics Language fossilization: What it is and how to overcome it So, it's been a few years into your language learning journey, and: you’ve noticed you keep repeatedly make the same mistakesyou feel stuck, and you don’t know why you aren’t
Linguistics "Language Laddering", or why you might use a foreign language to learn a foreign language This is a bit of a longer post, but it boils down to this simple graphic:A comparison of the same sentence in English, Japanese, and Korean-Your goal here is just to notice
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
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
alphabet Your Alphabet: The History of the Latin Script The Latin script is the most commonly used writing system in the world. In brief:Most European languages use this alphabet A good portion of Asian and African ones do, tooMost Native American
Language Learning Tips Comprehensible Input and Language Learning How Long Should I Listen Before Speaking? There are various methods of comprehensible input. One is full translation like we use at Glossika. Another method is n+1, where you may understand 80%
Linguistics Rank of Language Difficulty Which language is most difficult? In our last post (Language Difficulty), we talked about developing an objective method for comparing language difficulty across three aspects: vocabulary acquisition, syntax and grammar, and phonology. Languages
Linguistics Language Difficulty How to calculate how difficult a language is? How accurate are the infographics floating around the web these days about language difficulty? — Pretty inaccurate! They're mostly subjective opinions that people have based on
Linguistics How the two dots (umlaut) over a vowel change the pronunciation Level: Beginner If you're a native English speaker just starting out on your journey to learn a foreign language, then dots and accents and hats over and under letters can be an intimidating
Linguistics What is Denasalization? Denasalization Symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) These are uncommon among the world's languages and represent languages that are currently undergoing a change between two stable states of articulation: nasal and non-nasal.
Language Learning Tips Hack Foreign Vocabulary with the DNA of Language We've looked at Spatial Memory and Language Families, and now we can apply similar concepts that we understand from biology to track how languages evolve over time and space. In our next post,
