Lots of people out there flirt with the idea of learning a new language, but are wary of a long-term investment of time and effort, so they want to find out what the easiest language to learn for English speakers is. Or maybe they`re just curious. In any case, what makes a language easier to learn is (a) its simplicity, and (b) its similarity to your native Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2015
What Does “Fluency” Mean? When Can You Claim to Be Fluent in a Language?
One of the great language-learning debates that never seems to go away is the question of how well you have to know a language before you can claim to be “fluent”. Everybody wants to be “fluent” in the language they’re studying; language courses promise to make you “fluent” in the blink of an eye; and after you’ve been studying Continue reading