Ten tips to keep up the foreign language(s) you have studied
"I've studied Spanish in high school, but I can't remember much!" This is a very common sentence I hear all the time. Here are ten practical tips to keep up with your language.
Researcher, professor, language enthusiast, and yogini.
I’m Francesca, a linguist based in Los Angeles. I’m an Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Italian at the University of Southern California, USC. I’ve been a language and linguistic enthusiast since high school, and I can now share my love for it with my students.
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