February 2016 – Polyglot in Progress

Why I learn languages

1. It builds confidence. As someone with Asperger's, I'm used to not doing many things as good as others. In fact, part of the reasons I decided I had to…

Arabic

I started with this series because not only did it look very engaging and fun, but because there are so many dialects in Arabic that I wanted to learn the…

An attempt to learn Chinese

Considering what a difficult language (at least in my opinion) Chinese is to learn, this book is good at breaking down the basics into small bits that are rather easy…

Norwegian practice

Today I studied chapter nine in this book. I like how the book makes me repeat all of the Norwegian for every dialogue. However, I wish it had a bit…

A great resource for learning Icelandic.

This wonderful series has been the most fun resource I have ever used to learn a language. Even better it is free - if you go to their website and…

Reading Icelandic sagas

I have been learning Icelandic for over a year now. So I was excited to get these books featuring centuries old Icelandic sagas in Icelandic. When I first got them,…