Cool and Useful Fact #654: The largest single part of our brain is a thing called the auditory cortex. It’s used to convert sounds into words and words into meaning. The auditory cortex is right there, beneath your fingertips when you rub your temple. It’s big because we people have evolved uniquely equipped to learn, […]

“Yes,” you answer yourself - you did just say that. You just answered the foreign business associate’s question with no pause whatsoever. You handled it with ease. And now the people you work with, who thought they knew you - they’re looking at you funny.
“Who is this guy, this brown-noser?” they’re thinking. “To so convincingly, […]

Cool and Useful Fact #447: People make things complicated.
In our brief history, the more people studied how to learn another language, the more complicated they made the whole thing. Remember the language you took in high school? Not really, right? That’s because there was so little actual language being spoken. With all the vocabulary, verb […]

It’s just a little dream. One you’ve had now for some time. To walk into a cafe in your favorite country and easily, quite conversationally, order your meal - without looking like a complete idiot. But first this trip tonight, close to home at the local cafe - where you can practice your newfound language […]