I'm a bit of a language geek - not that I can speak anything other than English and German, but I've dabbled in many and am a bit obsessed with improving my meagre Japanese - but the most exciting part about knowing other languages is being able to use them when you travel. Above almost anything, …
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Languages and Accents: Episode 261 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
To prepare for this episode, I ran a poll in the Thoughtful Travellers Facebook group about which languages members had tried to learn. The results were interesting and the top ten were: French (82 votes)Spanish (61 votes)German (50 votes)Italian (45 votes)Japanese (22 votes)English as a …
20 German pop songs to help improve your language skills
During 2020, I set myself a goal of learning the lyrics of 20 German pop songs. I thought it'd be a good way to keep revising my German language skills (especially as we should have spent the last month of 2020 in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland ...), because music is amazing like that - you …