Tapping into language learning while you sleep
The idea of using the 7+ hours a night of sleep time to subliminally study isn’t new, but recent research shows that there may be more value in our down time after all, specifically when it comes to learning a new language. A team of Swiss psychologists from the Swiss National Science Foundation performed a […]
The Importance of Learning the Local Language while Teaching Overseas
By Adrian Palinic Genki desuka? How are you? This is the first actual phrase I put to use after stepping off the plane for my teaching assignment in Japan. Without any real knowledge of the Japanese language, other than a month-long crash course just before arriving, I really didn’t know what I had gotten myself […]