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'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...