Travel is nice - but not required to learn a language to fluency.
I don’t have the time or money to spend months in countries that speak my target languages. Despite that, I have learned 14 languages, 9 of them to fluency, and that includes languages like Mandarin Chinese. Subscribe if you want to learn how to do this yourself.
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I have a particular passion for more ‘eclectic’ languages, such as Modern Greek, Serbian-Croatian, Indonesian, Swahili... My “Script Hacking” books, published by Teach Yourself, will teach you the Arabic, Greek, Korean, Cyrillic (Russian/Ukrainian), Hebrew, Devanagari (Hindi) or Persian alphabet. I also co-authored “Teach Yourself Complete Esperanto”.
My current project is to prepare for the Modern Greek C2 level exam - the highest possible exam in the language - which will take place in May 2024. My posts will not be specifically about Greek but about achieving this kind of level without living in a country where the language is spoken. I live in Berlin, Germany.
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