Have you ever wondered why you can remember the lyrics to a song you haven’t heard in years, but forget a vocabulary list you studied yesterday? The answer is emotion. Our brains are designed to remember experiences that matter. The stronger the emotional connection, the more likely we are to remember what happened. That’s […]

I hear this all the time from adults: “I’m just not good at languages.” And I don’t really believe that. I think adults can absolutely learn another language. The problem is that we often make language learning much more complicated than it needs to be. We study it. We analyze it. We translate everything. We […]

For me, learning a language has never been about knowing as many words as possible. You can memorize hundreds of words and still have no idea what to say when someone actually starts talking to you. Language is about communication. And communication happens because we have a reason to talk. That’s really what we try […]

  Most people are taught to learn a language by memorizing vocabulary lists, translating every sentence, and studying grammar rules. While this approach can help you pass a test, it rarely helps you think naturally in another language. At Verbalee, we believe there is a better way. Children don’t learn their first language by translating. […]