Mandy Menaker « Fluent City Blog

5 Reasons Fall is the Best Season to Study a Language

Fall is filled with all sorts of amazing things: pumpkin bread, apple picking, MLB World Series games, costume hunting, Oktoberfest and hot cider. If you need more incentive to get pumped, try out a language class at Fluent City for the first (second, third, or fourth) time. Here are just a few reasons that fall is the best season to study a foreign language.

Five Back to School Tips from Fluent City

It’s that time of year again: Target is lined with Lisa Frank folders, Best Buy is offering gratis printers along with your computer purchase, and clothing stores are claiming the right accessory will help make you look cool. Yep folks, it’s back to school shopping season. If you are ready to relive the excitement of prepping for a grade school class but have advanced past fifth grade History or seventh grade Algebra, sign up for a French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian or Hebrew class with Fluent City and use these back to school tips to make sure you stand out as the coolest kid in the quad…erm…Williamsburg lobby.

How to Make a One Week Vacation Last Four Months

I am an expert on vacations. Mostly because I am convinced that I am living in one 365 days a year (I take a day off to relax on leap year.) The criticism that I most often get is that I smile too much, and a friend recently described my personality as an odd mix of “puppies, sparkles, rainbows, and stickers.” Lucky for you, I’m willing to share my secrets.

English as a second language…for someone who speaks English

When I talk to people on the phone about a potential language class, I often get asked where does the language come from? Not as in where do babies come from, but more meaning what regional specialty is the language that we teach. Is my teacher from South America or Spain? Do they know Egyptian Arabic or Modern Arabic? The answer is simple – it is all the same when you are first learning to communicate.

There are definitely verb tenses, conjugations, and patterns of speech that differ between each area, in the same way that a Brooklyn gangster will sound different than a Southern Belle from Georgia. However, a gun wearing mobster and a prom queen in cowgirl boots can still communicate using the same basic words.