* Blog post with a polyglot 's list for learning a new language While learning a new language , on your road to become a polyglot :), you're bound to run into one that has a writing system/script that's vastly different than your own? How do you approach that? You may've noticed in my translations up 'till now I only used Latin script / Romanization . This has several reasons… Firstly , it's the one *I* know, grew up with, and have the most experience with. I know the sounds of the letters and letter combinations and I can express and convert foreign sounds to that best, so it comes naturally and easy. When you start learning a new language that has a different script, you will also start this way, and it really is the ONLY way to start. You have no other references yet, so you don't have any choice. Which makes the first question: Should you even start learning the foreign alphabet / syllabaries / logogram chara...

While being the best polyglot you can be and looking up words for learning a new language , you might've noticed that there's usually more than one option to choose from (at least in Google translate)… Which option to choose? Well, before we go into that question… You need to know that, at least Google translate, doesn't always give the right translation… I know, Shock! Haha But neither do textbooks or apps always give the best translation! Textbooks and apps tend to give very polite and quite formal translations, which don't always correspond with how native speakers actually use the language in everyday life. For example: All 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese teaching apps give " Ni hao ma ?" as the translation for "How are you?", but Chinese people hardly ever use that to ask that question (I know this from firsthand experience but I've just stumbled upon a nice video explaining this, which I will post...

* Blog post with a polyglot 's list for learning a new language You got words for learning a new language , and now you want to put the 'glot' in polyglot … As you may remember from the " 🔤  Learning a new language - Step 1 to becoming a polyglot " blog post, I explained that pronunciation isn't necessarily a first priority when learning a new language, because you'll learn to fine-tune it over time. But the point to start getting some resemblance of the correct pronunciation when learning a new language, does come quite early on in a new language learning process, and can aid you with internalizing words through multiple associations. Let's carry on with the "Hello" list, this time with an approximation of the pronunciation for each of the new languages (in English; underline = particular stress on a syllable): 🇬🇧 English - Hello (Hello) 🇳🇱 Dutch - Hallo (Hall-low) 🇩🇪 ...

You've done step 1 & step 2 into learning a new language to become a polyglot … ********** English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Mandarin, French, Romanian, Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian, American Sign Language ! Remember how to say " Hello " in each of these languages? :) ********** While the first 2 steps were about 'starting' (" 🔤  Learning a new language - Step 1 to becoming a polyglot ") and 'making the commitment to putting in the effort' (" 🔤  Learning a new language - Step 2 to becoming a polyglot ") , from here on out there is no particular order in which my tips, tricks & advice apply. They're just 'the next steps' or simply 'steps' to help you along the way in learning multiple new languages simultaneously (" 🔤  Learning multiple new languages simultaneously , and not just one at a time ( poly...

So you've taken the first step into learning a new language and starting to become a polyglot . What's next? ********** Hello, Hallo (3), Halla, Hej, Hola, Ola, Ciao, Ni hao, Salut (2), Shalom, Privet, Zdravei, 👋🏼 (American Sign Language )! Remember which language each " Hello " is from? :) ********** The first step " 🔤  Learning a new language - Step 1 to becoming a polyglot " into learning a new language and becoming a polyglot was obvious right? The second step… Commitment! You've got to dedicate time each day to internalize and absorb a new language(s)! And that's actually quite easy, since you can even combine other activities while learning a new language! I ended the previous blog post with a hint about which times you can dedicate to your new language learning… some time in the morning, some during the day, and some at night. More specifically, some time in the morni...

* Blog post with a polyglot 's list for learning a new language Want to know the first step to learning a new language and become a polyglot ? Start now! THAT'S IT! Just start now! No 'thinking about it', no thinking about strategies, planning schedules etc. To help you along, I'll give you the start to some of the languages I'm learning/speaking at the moment: 🇬🇧 English - Hello 🇳🇱 Dutch - Hallo 🇩🇪 German - Hallo 🇳🇴 Norwegian - Hallo 🇸🇪 Swedish - Halla 🇩🇰 Danish - Hej 🇪🇸 Spanish - Hola 🇵🇹 Portuguese - Ola 🇮🇹 Italian - Ciao 🇨🇳 Mandarin - Ni hao 🇫🇷 French - Salut 🇷🇴 Romanian - Salut 🇮🇱 Hebrew - Shalom 🇷🇺 Russian - Privet 🇧🇬 Bulgarian - Zdravei 👋🏼 American Sign Language (ASL) - Clip for American Sign Languag...

This goes for aspiring polyglots   - AS WELL AS -  for single language learners ! In my previous blog post (" 🔤  A first thought about learning a new language i.e. becoming a polyglot ") , I already mentioned my stance on learning new languages is to scale UP the amount of new languages you're learning and actually try learning MORE new languages simultaneously, as opposed to scaling down to learning less new languages at a time. Here I'll sum up some of my reasoning behind that extensive new language learning stance… 1. First , as mentioned in the previous blog post, creating a greater challenge will generally result in greater gains . You don't even have to take my word for it… just experiment and see if it holds true. If nothing else, you will at least experience and confirm for yourself that 'going wide in new language learning' does not work for you. How and how wide should you scale up with learning new lan...