The purpose of this channel is to share my love of learning languages with others because I want to inspire and encourage them to study foreign languages as well. I also seek to share my knowledge and experience in studying so as to facilitate the task of learning languages.

Over the course of my life I have studied scores of languages to various degrees of depth and proficiency. I was taught a portion of them in classes during the course of my own education, but I have learned the bulk of them by studying on my own.

I have taught languages, language learning, linguistics, and literature as a university professor on five continents over the past fifteen years, and in my current position I am responsible for training teacher-trainers in effective language teaching strategies and methods.

My overall experience has been that it is extraordinarily difficult to integrate efficient language learning into the structure of most existing educational programs.

Thus, my long-term goal is to develop a new kind of intensive institute for foreign language study, an institute where the main focus would not be on teaching languages to students, but rather on teaching students how to teach themselves languages.

My own primary motivation for learning languages is to develop the ability to read classic texts in their original tongue of composition, and I ultimately aspire to found the interdisciplinary academic discipline of poly-literacy, which, simply put, is comparative philology wedded to great books education.

If you would like to read more about my ideas, please visit my website: foreignlanguageexpertise.com

I truly appreciate the interest that is shown when people write me letters, but please understand that I receive so many requests for advice about language learning that I cannot possibly answer them all.