Notas sobre hablar en voz alta.

Por qué la mayoría de las apps de idiomas no te dan fluidez, qué sí lo hace y las cosas pequeñas que aprendimos construyendo Glauda.

September 30, 20265 min de lecturaEn inglésarabic

You learned the Arabic alphabet in a month. Why is saying one sentence still so hard?

Arabic courses spend months on script and grammar tables. Speaking needs something else: new sounds, gendered verbs, and a clear answer to 'which Arabic?'.

Leer

September 30, 20265 min de lecturaEn inglésjapanese

You passed the JLPT. So why do you freeze when someone asks how your weekend was?

Plenty of Japanese learners can read far more than they can say. Verb-final sentences, speech styles and aizuchi explain why, and what to practice instead.

Leer

September 30, 20265 min de lecturaEn inglésnorwegian

Norwegian is the "easy" language. So why can't you order a coffee in Oslo?

Norwegian reads like English with extra vowels. Speaking it is another story: word order, melody, dialects, and a country that switches to English on you.

Leer

September 30, 20264 min de lecturaEn inglésswedish

Why Swedish sounds like singing, and why your Swedish doesn't (yet)

Swedish learners can read far more than they can say. Pitch accent, the sj-sound and everyday reduced speech are why, and here's how to close the gap out loud.

Leer

June 2, 20265 min de lecturaEn inglésgerman

Beyond du and Sie: when Germans actually switch register

The textbook rule is Sie with strangers, du with friends. The real social map is more complicated. A practical guide to what natives do, when, and why.

Leer

May 30, 20264 min de lecturaEn inglésfrench

Why French listening is so much harder than French reading

Spoken French is not the same language as written French. The sounds, the elisions, the speed. A guide to closing the listening gap once you can read fine.

Leer

May 26, 20264 min de lecturaEn ingléslanguage-learning

Streaks are a trap. Here's what to count instead.

Daily streaks measure whether you opened the app, not whether you got better. Why the difference matters for language learning.

Leer

May 22, 20265 min de lecturaEn inglésspanish

The 5 Spanish filler words you'll hear in Madrid

Textbook Spanish has none of these. Real Spanish runs on them. A field guide to vale, pues, hombre, oye, and sabes — what they mean and when to use them.

Leer

May 19, 20264 min de lecturaEn inglésdutch

Why everyone in the Netherlands switches to English with you

If you're learning Dutch in the Netherlands, every conversation is a quiet negotiation. Why it happens, and scripts that keep your friends speaking Dutch.

Leer

May 15, 20265 min de lecturaEn inglésfluency

You can read it. You just can't say it.

Reading fluency and speaking fluency are two different skills. Most language apps train one and call it the other, which is why you feel stuck.

Leer