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8 Reasons to Stop Being a Monolingual Muggle

So you’re a muggle… I gabbed about learning another language for years, but for some reason never really found the time or built up the motivation to sit down and really get to work. Maybe I didn’t really know how. I thought I had no time. I had taken some classes in high school and…
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The 10 Most Popular LATG Posts of 2014

It’s a new year, a clean slate, a fresh start, and I’m just about to begin a brand new major language project: French! In any case; 2014 was a great year for LATG. We went from 8,000 fans to over 20,000 fans on Facebook. Constructed a Twitter account that now has a humble but not…
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Learning Another Language Improves Your Health and Well Being

Most of us know all about the obvious benefits of learning a language. You know that it fosters international understanding, increases cultural awareness, increases your chances of finding employment and likely qualifies you for a higher salary than your monolingual counterparts. These aforementioned surface benefits that everyone tells you about are great, but if you…
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Would You Learn an Endangered Language?

Would you ever decide to study a language that was spoken by only 50,000 people? What about 5,000 people? 500 people? 5? Many of us make decisions about which language(s) to study based on a perception of their global worth. That is to say that we’re usually most interested in languages that can confer upon…
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