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Three alternatives to travel for grounded nomads

Each spring, the excitement was already palpable: my next journey was planned, my gear was ready, and I was looking forward to some time away from work and from the city. This year, it’s different. I imagine it’s different for you. If you used to enjoy travels as much as I did, I imagine it’s also not the easiest time for you. Are there any good alternatives to travel which can help us feel better about it all?

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Expat Flow Bonus: Finding your “opposite space”


This post is one of the free bonus chapters that go together with my eBook “Expat Flow”. You can get the book here.


My wife led me out the door and to the Tube station. I had no idea where we were going – but she had a plan. We’d just had a most busy week of work, and now the good thing was that we could do something, together, in London.

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Unlikely Language Learners Ideal: The Taxi Driver

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I pass a London taxi drivers’ school every time I walk back from the office. It’s a stuff of legends (see below for concrete reasons), but until now, I had no idea how helpful their experience could be to future polyglots. Is there anything you can learn from taxi drivers to help your foreign language study? I think there is.

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Extreme Guerrilla Language Learning: French – Recap

morocco french arabic language learningThe reason for trying to re-learn a language in 30 days must be something big. In my case – a trip to Morocco. I’m now back, and the big question is: has my language learning mission been a success?

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How Body Language can affect your foreign language

body language in foreign languagesThe relationship between language learning and nonverbal signals has been alluded to several times on this blog. The occasion for returning to this is a brilliant TED talk about the effect of body language on the mind. Can this matter for polyglots as well?

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Extreme Guerrilla Learning Update: French Anywhere

learn french anywhere, even offlineJust to bring you up to speed: I’m learning French in a hurry and for free. This is a more radical version of my guerrilla language learning challenge, where I’m learning three languages on a budget. Today, I’m looking at ways of taking my French offline!