Easy Languages: Stories of Language Learning

Learning a new language from scratch? You might already know thousands of words! In this episode, we show you how to improve your language awareness and possibly save months in your language journey by using this infallible trick in our tip of the week section: cognate vocabulary and how to navigate the intricacies of false friends! Show Notes Easy Languages Schools Easy German Summer School Easy Spanish Winter School Channels celebrating a milestone Easy French Easy Italian Easy Portuguese Easy Turkish Podcast Lexical Distance among the Languages of Europe (Wired) Untranslatable Words (Wikipedia) Fika Lagom Janteloven Podcast Episodes Easy Italian Podcast 33: Casa dolce casa! Easy French Podcast 1: La Genèse d'Easy French

Hi, it's Rita and Raffaele! In this first episode of the Easy Languages Podcast, we introduce ourselves (and our accents) and discuss why we love languages. We are both part of the Easy Languages network and just recently met in Barcelona, where we produced videos about funny idioms, among other things. As our week's tip, we explain why you should stop translating individual words in your head. Show Notes Videos on idioms: Foreigners Trying To Guess The Meaning of Weird French Expressions (Easy French) Foreigners Try To Guess the Meanings of Weird Turkish Idioms (Easy Turkish) Foreigners Guess 9 Weird German Idioms (Easy German) Foreigners Guess What 7 Weird Greek Idioms Mean (Easy Greek) It's all Greek to me (Omniglot) Easy Spanish Podcast 61: Curiosidades de la LL, Y y X en español

Who said language learning has to be difficult? Join Rita, Raffaele and the teams from the Easy Languages network as they share their stories of language learning and answer your questions. Members get bonus content, monthly Q&As, discounts and many more perks. Learn more at easy-languages.org/podcast!