The NLG Blog

Staying in English is comfortable right up until you get cut off: socially, emotionally and functionally. That is the real price of comfort, and it is higher than it looks.

The comfort is real

Nobod...

"All Germans speak English" is a myth. Many Germans like to say that most of them do, and it's a friendly thing to say. But it ignores everyone who gets left out of English-language conversations, and...

If you live in Wiesbaden, you probably know the feeling: you want to stop translating your life and start living it, and you've tried the apps and the evening class, and you're still bracing every tim...

Before there was a framework, there was a forest.

English in Nature was a programme I developed and ran, on and off, between 2012 and 2023: German children, outdoors, learning English without a singl...

Most of what makes German hard isn't the language. It's doing it in front of a stranger who might be impatient. We built a network in a real city to take that fear out of the equation.

The idea

We m...

Next Level German is ExperioLingo's first programme: German for English-speaking adults who are building a life in Germany, not collecting certificates. It combines structured DELA tracks, live practi...

If you've ever concluded that you're bad at languages, read this first. You're not bad at German. You're overextended.

A very full life

You moved countries. You're doing your job in a second languag...

DELA, Dynamic Experiential Language Acquisition, is the framework underneath everything ExperioLingo does. Its core claim is simple: your brain has a language-acquisition capability that never switche...

ExperioLingo teaches people how to acquire a language, not just how to study one. That one sentence is the whole company, so let's unpack it.

The position

Language is acquired through experience, no...

Hi, I'm Christine. I've been teaching languages since 2005, and somewhere along the way I stopped believing in most of how it's done.

I don't say that lightly. I have spent more than thirty years stu...

Studying a language and acquiring one are not the same thing, and most of the frustration adult learners feel comes from treating them as if they were.

You can know that the dative case exists and st...

How to tackle paperwork, permits, and official processes with confidence

Introduction: Why Navigating German Bureaucracy Can Be Challenging

Germany’s bureaucracy is legendary—and not always in a ...