Polyglossia

notes from learning languages the fun way

What Surprised Me Most Learning Three Languages at Once

Cross-contamination, confusion, and a few unexpected overlaps

Learning three languages in parallel wasn’t a plan so much as something that happened because I loved three very different things at the same time. A year in, a few things have surprised me enough ...

Posted by RedOne on July 25, 2026

What Subtitles Hide

A single anime line, and everything the translation left out

Subtitles are a compromise. They have to fit on screen, match pacing, and read naturally in the target language — which means something almost always gets smoothed over. Most of the time that’s inv...

Posted by RedOne on July 25, 2026

Three Languages, One Method

Why Bollywood, chanson, and anime taught me more than any textbook

I teach English for a living. I’ve stood in front of a whiteboard explaining the present perfect more times than I can count. So when people find out I’m also learning three languages in my spare t...

Posted by RedOne on July 25, 2026

One Artist, One Album, Ten New Words

A repeatable way to learn French without opening a textbook

I’ve found a format that works well enough that I want to keep repeating it: pick one album, listen all the way through, and pull out ten words or phrases I didn’t know. Not fifty. Ten. Small enoug...

Posted by RedOne on July 25, 2026

Learning Hindi Through Song Lyrics

What one Bollywood song taught me that no textbook did

I’ve rewound the same twenty seconds of a Bollywood song more times than I’d like to admit. Not because it’s catchy — although it is — but because there’s usually one line that resists translation,...

Posted by RedOne on July 25, 2026

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