Month: March 2023

Is language exchange right for you? It works best when the two people engaging in it have already reached a communicative level in their target languages. They can save money, learn, and help the other person out at the same time. What's not to love right? Well, I guess it depends on where you are in your language journey. If one or both of you have not reached a communicative level it probably won't work. There is a lot of learning that should proceed a language exchange. Grade School The early stages of learning a language require a lot of…

Ask yourself, am I really willing put in the work it will take to learn a foreign language? Is the cost of learning: financially, emotionally, time commitment etc… worth it? You might determine that it is not worth it for you. There are lots of people that start out learning a language but then later they give up on it. In Hong Kong Chinese students sometimes give up on studying English because they don’t see a need for it. Sure, intellectually they know that learning English is good for them when it comes to finding a future job. English is…