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Master the Japanese kanji 気 ('ki') with 50 real sentences from Japanese news sites

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Practicing French numbers and the verb 'avoir' with 50 real news sentences

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Fifty Spanish news sentences with the verb 'ser'

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Create your own language lessons with automatic sentence lists

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Interview with polyglot and language blogger Lindsay Williams

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Spanish Fundamentals #6: 11 new words and many practice sentences

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Spanish grammar: por vs. para by example

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Reading Japanese Katakana #6: The next eight syllables (and many more practice words)

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How to find a language exchange partner and make the most of your conversations

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How to measure vocabulary knowledge

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Learn German with WordBrewery's personalized courses

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Reading Japanese Katakana #5: The next five syllables (and many more practice words)

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The most efficient way to master high-frequency vocabulary

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Three strategies for using vocabulary lists and flash cards

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How language learners can overcome the intermediate plateau

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Five reasons to learn a language with WordBrewery

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Never confuse 'who' and 'whom' again: English pronoun cases

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Understanding German noun cases

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Build fluency in nineteen languages with real sentences from the news

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Reading Katakana #4: more high-frequency words and characters

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Learning languages makes you smarter

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Understanding the German modal particle 'doch'

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Want to learn another language? Take it one sentence at a time.

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Take the next step toward fluency: Become a WordBrewery member

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How to learn languages in short bursts and hidden moments

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Spanish Fundamentals #5: Introducing the verb 'ser' and verb conjugation

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How to efficiently read a foreign text

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Reading Japanese Katakana #3: The next five syllables (and many more practice words)

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Spanish Fundamentals #4: Subject pronouns and more

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Learn Spanish through real example sentences with WordBrewery's Spanish Core Anki deck

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Why should language learners care about Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

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Reading Japanese Katakana #2: Five more common syllables (and lots of practice)

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What is a direct object?

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Why you need to master high-frequency vocabulary in your target language

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Reading Japanese Katakana #1: The five Japanese vowels

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Spanish Fundamentals #2: Cognates, articles, and four new sentences

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Learn to Read Japanese with WordBrewery

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Spanish Fundamentals #1: Reading your first real Spanish sentences

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WordBrewery now has native-speaker audio for Spanish

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WordBrewery now has native-speaker audio for Spanish

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What language should I study this summer?

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Introducing WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals Post Series

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Why fluency is achieved one sentence-not one word—at a time

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Internalize, don't just memorize: why we always teach vocabulary in context

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Welcome to WordBrewery

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Jul 21, 2017 in Japanese

Master the Japanese kanji 気 ('ki') with 50 real sentences from Japanese ...

Practice the high-frequency Japanese kanji '気' ('ki', spirit) by studying it in the con...

Jul 8, 2017 in French

Practicing French numbers and the verb 'avoir' with 50 real news sentences

Practice the high-frequency French verb 'avoir' ('to have') by studying it in the conte...

Jul 5, 2017 in spanish

Fifty Spanish news sentences with the verb 'ser'

Conjugating ser with 50 example sentences | Learn the conjugation of the Spanish irregu...

Jun 26, 2017 in learning

Create your own language lessons with automatic sentence lists

Automate your language learning with WordBrewery's newest feature: automatic lists of r...

Jun 13, 2017 in interviews

Interview with polyglot and language blogger Lindsay Williams

Polyglot Lindsay Williams, who runs the language-learning blog Lindsay Does Languages, ...

Jun 7, 2017 in spanish

Spanish Fundamentals #6: 11 new words and many practice sentences

Lesson 6 of WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals post series introduces subject pronouns,...

Jun 5, 2017 in spanish

Spanish grammar: por vs. para by example

Because 'por' and 'para' both mean 'for', it can be difficult to know when to use each....

May 31, 2017 in japanese

Reading Japanese Katakana #6: The next eight syllables (and many more pr...

Part 6 of WordBrewery's Reading Japanese Katakana post series lets you practice 15 esse...

May 30, 2017 in learning

How to find a language exchange partner and make the most of your conver...

Tips for finding a language partner and improving your practice conversations, plus lin...

May 24, 2017 in learning

How to measure vocabulary knowledge

WordBrewery's innovative word knowledge scoring system reflects actual mastery of a word.

May 22, 2017 in german

Learn German with WordBrewery's personalized courses

WordBrewery's Course Mode is now available for German. Master the most important German...

May 13, 2017 in japanese

Reading Japanese Katakana #5: The next five syllables (and many more pra...

Lesson 5 of WordBrewery's Reading Japanese Katakana post series lets you practice 34 es...

May 11, 2017 in learning

The most efficient way to master high-frequency vocabulary

WordBrewery's new language courses adapt to each learners' vocabulary knowledge needs a...

May 4, 2017 in learning

Three strategies for using vocabulary lists and flash cards

How to efficiently learn vocabulary from your study list, beyond using spaced repetition.

Apr 23, 2017 in learning

How language learners can overcome the intermediate plateau

Strategies for getting past the intermediate plateau and continuing your progress towar...

Apr 14, 2017 in learning

Five reasons to learn a language with WordBrewery

There are five aspects of WordBrewery's method that make us unique among language-learn...

Apr 6, 2017 in english

Never confuse 'who' and 'whom' again: English pronoun cases

English is a Germanic language, and it uses three cases in its pronoun system.

Apr 4, 2017 in german

Understanding German noun cases

Understand the four German noun cases—nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive—and ...

Mar 24, 2017 in learning

Build fluency in nineteen languages with real sentences from the news

WordBrewery teaches grammar and high-frequency vocabulary in nineteen languages in cont...

Mar 16, 2017 in japanese

Reading Katakana #4: more high-frequency words and characters

Learn to read Japanese Katakana through high-frequency words containing only characters...

Mar 11, 2017 in learning

Learning languages makes you smarter

Learning languages improves your memory and executive functions by strengthening the ne...

Mar 2, 2017 in german

Understanding the German modal particle 'doch'

How to use and understand the German modal particle 'doch'

Feb 19, 2017 in learning

Want to learn another language? Take it one sentence at a time.

WordBrewery teaches you languages one sentence at a time using real sentences from the ...

Jan 29, 2017 in learning

Take the next step toward fluency: Become a WordBrewery member

WordBrewery has introduced monthly Basic and Gold memberships with additional benefits

Jan 3, 2017 in learning

How to learn languages in short bursts and hidden moments

Boost your language studies through micro-learning

Dec 2, 2016 in spanish

Spanish Fundamentals #5: Introducing the verb 'ser' and verb conjugation

Lesson 5 of WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals post series introduces subject pronouns,...

Nov 20, 2016 in learning

How to efficiently read a foreign text

Read and learn from a second language text efficiently

Sep 24, 2016 in japanese

Reading Japanese Katakana #3: The next five syllables (and many more pra...

Part 3 of WordBrewery's Reading Japanese Katakana post series lets you practice 15 esse...

Sep 13, 2016 in spanish

Spanish Fundamentals #4: Subject pronouns and more

Lesson 4 of WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals post series introduces subject pronouns,...

Sep 7, 2016 in spanish

Learn Spanish through real example sentences with WordBrewery's Spanish ...

WordBrewery's new, free Spanish Core Anki deck includes over 1000 real Spanish sentence...

Aug 30, 2016 in learning

Why should language learners care about Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

What is Natural Language Processing (NLP), and how can WordBrewery and other language l...

Aug 29, 2016 in japanese

Reading Japanese Katakana #2: Five more common syllables (and lots of pr...

Part 2 of WordBrewery's Reading Japanese Katakana post series lets you practice 10 esse...

Aug 18, 2016 in spanish

Spanish Fundamentals #3

Lesson 3 of WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals post series introduces object pronouns, ...

Aug 18, 2016 in grammar

What is a direct object?

What is a direct object, and how can you identify one in a sentence?

Aug 16, 2016 in learning

Why you need to master high-frequency vocabulary in your target language

The 2,000 most frequently-used words in a language cover 80% of text and speech, so you...

Aug 12, 2016 in japanese

Reading Japanese Katakana #1: The five Japanese vowels

Part 1 of WordBrewery's Japanese Katakana post series teaches you how to read your firs...

Aug 6, 2016 in spanish

Spanish Fundamentals #2: Cognates, articles, and four new sentences

Lesson 2 of WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals post series introduces cognates, the num...

Jul 31, 2016 in japanese

Learn to Read Japanese with WordBrewery

Introducing WordBrewery's new Reading Japanese post series

Jul 27, 2016 in spanish

Spanish Fundamentals #1: Reading your first real Spanish sentences

Lesson 1 of WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals post series shows much you can learn fro...

Jul 16, 2016 in spanish

WordBrewery now has native-speaker audio for Spanish

WordBrewery users can now practice speaking and understanding Spanish with sentences re...

Jul 16, 2016 in Spanish

WordBrewery now has native-speaker audio for Spanish

WordBrewery users can now practice speaking and understanding Spanish with sentences re...

Jun 30, 2016 in learning

What language should I study this summer?

If you’re trying to become conversant in a new language over the next few months, think...

Jun 17, 2016 in spanish

Introducing WordBrewery's Spanish Fundamentals Post Series

Learn high-frequency Spanish vocabulary by studying simple but authentic phrases and se...

Jun 15, 2016 in learning

Why fluency is achieved one sentence-not one word—at a time

Language learners need to see the way that words connect with one another to express a ...

Jun 15, 2016 in learning

Internalize, don't just memorize: why we always teach vocabulary in context

Language learners are best served by studying vocabulary in the context of real sentences

Jun 14, 2016 in learning

Welcome to WordBrewery

WordBrewery teaches you languages one sentence at a time using real sentences from the ...

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