When exploring a foreign country, it goes without saying that experiencing exotic cultures, meeting new people, and having the adventure of a lifetime is almost a guarantee. However, there is still one aspect which will always hold you back from taking in the full experience…

Learning a language can seem like a pretty daunting task. It isn’t something that happens overnight, or even over the course of a few months, and it can take a while to be able to feel comfortable having even just a simple conversation in your…

There’s a common issue second language learners seem to have. It arises when, after months (or perhaps even years) of study, they try to talk to a native speaker of the language they’ve been learning, and realize they can’t really communicate much of anything at…

Born in Khartoum and now based in Toronto, Ahmed has lived in New York, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Oxford, Taipei and Singapore, so it should come as no surprise that one of Ahmed’s passions, as a local in so many parts of the world, is…

Does this sound familiar? Learning a foreign language is often exciting. With each expertly executed email, understood dubbed episode of FRIENDS without subtitles or new emoji of encouragement from your language-learning app, you can find your confidence well and truly boosted. Until… You’re on holiday…

Welcome to the first of our Chatterbug Features, our new Chatterblog series featuring stories from actual language learners. In these posts, we hand over the mic to our students and let them tell us their trials and tribulations of learning a new language. Today, we’re…

It’s a common belief that adults are bad at learning second languages. We’ve all heard someone say so, usually as an explanation for why they haven’t succeeded in learning a second language themselves. Sometimes, they’ll provide some anecdotal evidence to support this idea: they’ll point…

For many of us, the memories of language classes at school are enough to make us stick with our native one for good. But learning a second language doesn’t mean you must obsessively memorise directions to the town hall (did that ever come in useful?),…

It’s very easy to develop a taste for the beauty of languages, and comparing a foreign language to your own often makes you appreciate both even more. Whether it’s the language of business, the language of love, the language of passion, the language of food…

We live in a time where it seems that the English language is taking over the world. More and more people are learning how to speak English across the globe and it has become the go-to language where people from every part of the world…