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Hey reader,

Here it is, the first edition for 2026. As not-quite-promised, I did have to skip the previous edition due to me being so busy travelling.

In case you’re interested, I spent a week skiing in Austria, and before that I was travelling around Belgium and Germany for the Christmas / new year period.

Now, back to our scheduled programming...

I recently picked up German, and my go-to course for when I’m cooking or travelling has been Language Transfer German. It’s audio only, well structured, and, best of all, completely free. If you like audio first methods, I recommend you give it a go.

A word of warning, I don’t think this should be your only source of grammar or vocabulary. Think of it more as a supplement for something to listen to when you can’t study at your desk.

I don't think people realize how insanely hard it is to REALLY learn a language - Someone’s rant over on r/languagelearning really hits the nail on the head for anyone who has gone far but is wondering why they don’t sound like a native yet.

I haven’t been too much on the web lately, so I thought I would share some good IG creators to follow:

Should you be talking to your infant?

The different personalities of typefaces.

They’re making an LLM to talk to dolphins.

How Hindi and English numbers are related:

Source: StarkeyComics.

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