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Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog. Tim is an author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, investor (FB, Uber, Twitter, 50+ more), and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (400M+ downloads)
The Okano Isao judo textbook I used to learn Japanese grammar. Post reading time: 15 minutes. Language learning need not be complicated. Principles of cognitive neuroscience and time management can be applied to attain conversational fluency (here defined as 95%+ comprehension and 100% expressive abilities) in 1-3 months. Some background on my language obsession, from …
Coffee shops vs. classrooms – who wins? (Photo: eye2eye) This is one of several articles planned as supplements to the original “How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour.” This piece focuses on acquisition of new material; for reactivating “forgotten” languages and vocab, I recommend also reading “How to Resurrect Your High …
Deconstructing Arabic in 45 Minutes Conversational Russian in 60 minutes? This post is by request. How long does it take to learn Chinese or Japanese vs. Spanish or Irish Gaelic? I would argue less than an hour. Here’s the reasoning… Before you invest (or waste) hundreds and thousands of hours on a language, you should …
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Oktoberfest is good for reactivating German but bad for livers. ((c) Dave77459) How can you possibly maintain fluency in two foreign languages — let alone five or six — if the opportunities to use them are months or years apart? In 20 minutes, I leave from JFK for Iceland, then Scotland, and then a circle …
Tim Ferriss: Greeting ladies and germs, this is Tim Ferriss, and welcome to another episode of the Time Ferriss show. This is a shorter episode, instead of a long format interview with an expert of some type. And we’re going focus on Seneca, my favorite stoic thinker and author, Seneca the Younger. His writing that …
Tim Ferriss: Zdravstvuj, my cute little darlings. This is Tim Ferriss and welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show where, each episode, it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers from many different worlds – whether they come from military, entertainment, sports, or otherwise. To dissect and collect the patterns for you that …
Tim Ferriss: Hello boys and girls. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show, where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers of various types from all fields including entertainment, military, academia, research, and otherwise, sports, etc. This episode is a very special one and features a verbal …
Tim Ferriss: Greetings, my little Mogwai. This is Tim Ferriss, and I’m going to redo a legal disclaimer for this episode. I don’t do many of these, but at the behest of my ever-so-competent legal counsel, allow me to read the following. I am not recommending, endorsing or supporting any of the substances or compounds …
