Last week, I was compiling a collection of more than 25 different versions of the Canadian nation anthem “O Canada” for my daughter. The anthem is her favourite song besides, of course, the Alphabet song. I had been singing the anthem to her since she was 3-months old. Somehow, the tune worked great for a [...]

LingQ finally exited its beta last week. Congratulations, Steve, Mark, and your team!
I have been using the LingQ system for my French study since its beta launch in the beginning of August. During the last 2 months, I have been reading a lot. The LingQ system simply facilitates my reading activity, making it something very [...]

I had some time today to update my French vocabulary building progress. I was amazed that I have added nearly 600 words this month!
In fact, I owe this achievement to the LingQ system. When its beta version came out at the beginning of August, I subscribed to it right away. I have been using it [...]

Naturegirl left a comment on my previous post, mentioning a common scenario, where you want to practice your target language, only to find out that the other person always responses back to you in English (or your native language).
This is indeed an extremely frustrating experience. This could be by far the number one enemy for [...]

It has been a while since I last updated my language learning progress. There seems to be a lot to report. I might as well start from my French vocabulary.
Since the beginning of the year, I started setting monthly targets on the number of French words to learn. I started off well but stopped setting [...]