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Is the role of repetition in learning a foreign language so important? Following recent discoveries in the field of the brain’s functioning, and the...

Is there a universal best time to learn? Is every human being structured in such a way that we can achieve optimal efficiency at certain times? Or maybe...

We often associate note taking with bad memories of sitting in class or at a lecture. But although it was often difficult for us to take them down, we...

Nobody likes learning difficult things. When we see a complicated topic in front of us, such as inflection of nouns or the hated subjuntivo mode in Spanish,...

"I talk to myself. Sometimes you have to talk to someone intelligent." We have no idea where this saying came from, but one thing is for sure - it does...

How many times when you return to language learning do you get the feeling of "I already know this" and skip the next word or rule? If this is yet another...

Will learning the names of over 6,000 species of beetles occurring in Poland allow you to communicate freely in Polish? The answer to this question is...

Expanding your vocabulary is essential to successful language learning. But simply memorising long word lists is not enough - you need to know how to use...

Russian is spoken by 258 million people worldwide, which makes it among the top ten most spoken languages. If we add the fact that Russia is the largest...

If you are wondering whether it is worth learning vocabulary, we can dispel your doubts right away. Vocabulary plays a huge role in language learning....

You buy a language course or sign up for a class. In your head, you can already see yourself talking to locals during a trip, impressing your boss at work...