Myth #2: The best way to learn a foreign language is to speak it

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About

My name is Tomasz P. Szynalski. I live in Poland. In the 1990s, my friend and I taught ourselves to speak English fluently (with a native-like American accent) in about 3 years, using some unorthodox learning techniques. In 2001, we founded Antimoon to share our insights with other English learners.

Recent Posts

• Reader mail: Reading aloud to improve your English3.1
• Grammar rules update4.7
• Why it’s so difficult to speak English without mistakes3.4
• Things you should know about phonetic transcription1.29
• English pronunciation is a minefield11.1
• Why it’s important to learn about the sounds of English10.24
• Modernizing Antimoon10.16
• YouGlish: A YouTube-based pronunciation dictionary2.19
• Antimoon en español12.12
• Confusing American phonetic transcriptions for “air”, “near” and “sure”8.20
• Should you care about phonetic transcrip­tions?6.26
• Solving the problem of typing foreign characters and phonetic symbols on a PC5.14

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