Member Focus Japanese Teacher Finds Thai Grammar Worth Fighting For Dramatic and full of passion. That’s how we often perceive language learning. Stories of polyglots and language entrepreneurs are full…
Member Focus Philip’s Korean Drama: How to Use English to Surf the Korean Wave Learning a language is a journey. We hear it all the time. However, rarely does anyone specify that it’s a…
Member Focus How a Russian Programmer is Cracking the Code to English Curiosity. It’s what leads us to explore and learn. It can however also trip us up, and contribute to developing…
Member Focus From Strength to Strength: How a Chinese-American Girl Stood Up To Her Father To Pursue Her Dreams Life often passes faster than we can process it. Looking back we only remember snapshots—symbolic representations of people and situations…
Member Focus Why an Aussie Sold His Telescope to Travel to Thailand The Matrix. How do you know you don’t live in a simulation? We all have times when the course of…
Member Focus How a Student in Mexico Fought the American Stereotype Distance. Whether metaphorical or physical, distance prevents us from creating connections. Connections are key to understanding, and understanding is key…
Member Focus The Art in Language: How an American High School Student Became a Mandarin Calligraphy Pro Can art be a language and language be an art? They seem like opposites to each other, but in many…
Member Focus Russian-American Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award Metamorphosis. You might know it as a title of Kafka’s novella. It’s also what happens to all of us throughout…
Language Learning This Jeopardy is Not a Game Crisis. Jeopardy. Emergency. These aren’t words we typically associate with the topic of language learning. Ok, well perhaps “Jeopardy!”: for…
Language Learning The Secrets of Embarrassment: How To Use Embarrassment for Memory and Learning Embarrassment is a powerful emotion. It can make us feel anxious, make us withdraw into ourselves and we can be…
