Strength in Languages
July 1, 2019 9:07 pm Leave your thoughtsPutting together the very first Polyglot Conference, the first event of its kind, ignited something quite special. Naturally I saw... View Article
Posts by Richard
Going Quebecois!
July 2, 2017 3:38 pm Leave your thoughtsWhere is the other challenge this summer? OK, admit it! You may have seen my blog post about learning Indonesian this summer... View Article
Indonesian Language Challenge
June 30, 2017 6:40 am Leave your thoughtsLet the summer language challenges begin! This month I have taken on a language learning challenge that’s new territory for... View Article
Breathing Life into Language
December 17, 2016 4:23 pm Leave your thoughtsMike Campbell (from Glossika) first raised this question for me many years ago: Why are you not out saving languages?... View Article
How fast can I learn a language?
February 25, 2016 7:16 pm Leave your thoughtsLast time I explored the “The Secret of Learning Languages” with you and now I’d like to talk about just... View Article
The Secret of Learning Languages
February 11, 2016 10:15 pm 1 CommentDuring a Polyglot Workshops Online session with participants, I got a really interesting comment: “I came to learn about the... View Article
It’s all Greek to me!
November 29, 2015 9:49 pm 1 CommentEnd of a conference…start of my challenge… At the end of the Polyglot Conference in New York City, I was... View Article
Setting goals
August 28, 2015 3:25 pm Leave your thoughtsThe summer is coming to an end in the northern hemisphere and it’s time to go back to school. This... View Article
What’s a Rusty Language?
July 27, 2015 11:42 pm Leave your thoughtsWe often hear about people being “rusty” in a language. But what does that mean? How do we measure rust?... View Article
Polish your Polish
June 4, 2015 6:32 pm 1 CommentCan you get your tongue around the weird and wonderful consonant sounds in Polish? Watch this video I put together... View Article
