Introduction

I’ve been thinking about starting this blog a lot recently because I’ve been learning languages my whole life (teaching them during the past few years) and I know what helps. If I come up with something new, that I consider helpful for my students, I always do it sooner or later.

I recommend my students the same things over and over again, typically those that I’ve tried and that I’ve kept using ever since. When I come across something new, that I would like to share with my students, it is troublesome to send an email to everyone separately.

As a result, I created this blog to have all the tips and tricks in one place available to everyone. We’ll see if it’ll work.

The name of the blog comes from the idea that once you begin learning a language, you suddenly stop hearing disjointed sounds and start hearing meaning.

The quote on the top is something that Péter Medgyes, a Hungarian linguist, said as a part of his lecture “How’s this for fun?” at the 25th P.A.R.K. Conference in Brno.

Very true indeed.