Agnieszka Murdoch

About Agnieszka Murdoch

Language teacher and content creator.
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Day 5 of the 21-day language challenge I haven’t been very good at posting these updates regularly – it’s partly due to other work I’ve been focusing on (writing a language starter guide – sign up for the newsletter below to hear more about it) and partly due to the equipment I use to film my language vlogs. I’ve been using my iphone and it takes me ages to upload them to Youtube so I probably need to think about an upgrade! Anyway, I’ve finished the 21-day language challenge now but will not be posting my updates daily. You’ll find […]

The 21-day language challenge: day 5

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Why don’t we celebrate our success more? Language learning is fun but it’s also a challenge. There are always new challenges no matter how fluent you get. Always new words to learn, new strange grammatical structures you’ve never heard about, new ways to pronounce things and phrases that make you sound more cool. We all find parts of language learning difficult and we all struggle with some aspects of it before we finally get it. But when we do get it, we should all make sure we celebrate our success. A lot of language learners have a tendency to focus on […]

You’re so good at languages already – celebrate it!

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Learn French for free: blogs Here’s part 1 of the first article in the series ‘How to learn languages for free’. Regardless of what level you’re at, the resources listed below will help you maintain or improve your French language skills at no cost. If that’s something you’re interested in, then read on! Also, make sure you subscribe for my free newsletter at the bottom of this article if you’d like more language fun delivered to your inbox! Oui, c’est ça This is a fun blog with cartoons, songs and much more. La bande desinée is something that French people […]

Learn French for free: part 1

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Make language learning part of your life A lot of language bloggers have written about effective language learning being linked to making it part of your everyday life. Many of us don’t live in the country whose language we’re learning. However, this doesn’t mean that we can’t live our lives in that language. Olly Richards talks about this in his recent interview. Below, you’ll find 10 practical ways in which you can incorporate language learning into activities you’d be likely to engage in during your day anyway, even if you weren’t learning a language. 1. Read and watch the news […]

Don’t learn a language – live a language

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It’s been almost a decade since I moved from Poland to the UK. Although I learned English as a foreign language, at this point, I consider myself fully bilingual. I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at British universities and for the last four years I have worked as a researcher, writer and editor, writing in English. I have also set up my own content writing business and published a book. This is all in English, rather than in Polish. When I first moved to the UK to start a degree in English literature and French, a new world opened […]

Forgetting your native language is a thing

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How to learn a language: day 4 of the 21-day language challenge Day 4 of my 21-day language challenge is over! If you’ve missed days 1-3, start here. And here’s what I talk about in today’s vlog: Progress update on my objective relating to verbs Simple sentences about what I like Using Twitter for language learning Make sure you subscribe to my Youtube channel if you don’t want to miss my future updates! Are you tempted to do the challenge yourself? Let me know in the comments below! Here’s the vlog, and if you’d like to watch the day 5 […]

The 21-day language challenge: day 4

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How to learn a language: day 3 of the 21-day language challenge Welcome to day 3 of the 21-day language challenge! If you’ve missed day 1, you can watch it here, and click here for day 2. Today’s vlog covers the following topics: Pronouns, simple sentences and link words Using the Google Translate app Setting objectives Make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel to follow my progress! Here’s the vlog, and if you’d like to watch my day 4 vlog as well, click here.

The 21-day language challenge: day 3

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Here’s a round-up of my favourite seven language blog posts from February. If you’ve got any other suggestions, feel free to share them in the comments below! Five bizarre false friends in Polish and Russian In his recent post, Alex Rawlings talks about the close similarity between Polish and Russian, which can sometimes be very misleading. Alex discusses five truly bizarre false friends – take a look and see if you know them! How to stop people talking to you in English I went to Spain last year and what made me the most excited about my trip was checking how […]

The language round-up: best language blogs in February

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How to learn a language: day 2 of the 21-day challenge Welcome to day 2 of my 21-day language challenge! If you missed day 1, you can watch it here. Thinking of learning a new language? Try the 21-day language challenge! Click To Tweet Some of the things I cover in the vlog are: Using flashcards to memorise vocabulary Recording things in Evernote Choosing verbs to learn and learning verb conjugation Setting language learning objectives and determining your ultimate goals Here’s the video, and if you’d like to watch my vlog from day 3, click here. Subscribe to 5-minute language […]

The 21-day language challenge: day 2

How much can you learn in 21 days? I’ve decided to take up a new language. I’ve also decided to do it in a different way – by undertaking a 21-day language challenge! The most productive way to start your day: the 21-day language challenge Click To Tweet The aim of the challenge is to see how much I can learn in 21 days and see whether I want to carry on. I will be updating you on my progress in my vlogs so make sure you subscribe to 5-minute language and to my Youtube channel so that you don’t […]

The 21-day language challenge: day 1