5-Minute Language Blog

  • How to stay motivated when learning a language

    How to stay motivated when learning a language

    Motivation is an important element of the language learning process. For each of us, language learning motivation is linked to something slightly different but I will try and give you some universal tips on how to stay motivated when learning a foreign language. Hope you’ll find them useful! Check out my video on this topic…

  • 8 ways to use positive affirmations for language learning

    8 ways to use positive affirmations for language learning

    You may have heard about the power of positive affirmations in improving personal effectiveness but how can this technique help you in becoming a successful language learner? Read this article to find out how to learn a language with positive affirmations! What are affirmations? Affirmations, or positive affirmations, are short powerful statements that you make…

  • Jump-start your language skills by watching TV: a 4-step guide

    Jump-start your language skills by watching TV: a 4-step guide

    The following post is from Paul Martin, an English teacher who lives in Argentina. Paul writes on behalf of Language Trainers, a language teaching service which offers foreign language level tests as well as other free language learning resources on its website.  Over to you Paul! They say that TV rots your brain, but for…

  • How to learn and maintain multiple languages at the same time

    How to learn and maintain multiple languages at the same time

    One of the things that often come up in my conversations with other language learners is the question of how to learn and maintain multiple languages at the same time. Below, you will find my tips, as well as a summary of what other language experts think about learning and maintaining several languages simultaneously. I’m…

  • How to use mnemonics to learn vocabulary in any language

    How to use mnemonics to learn vocabulary in any language

    What is mnemonics and how can it help you learn vocabulary? I was in the car with my Mum the other day, after her and my Dad picked me up from the train station on my way back from the Berlin Polyglot Gathering. I was telling them all about memory palaces and a lecture by…