When learning a language, your brain must team up with your body for the most effective practice. Find out what exercises you could--and should--include weekly in your language drills.

Do you think visualizing is a good tool to achieve smoothness in speech and to help you get the best out of your speaking skills in conversation? Find out right here. There's some bonus practice for you too!

Everybody refers to Italian as a musical language, but is it really? And to what extent?

This practice is exactly what you need to increase your Italian speaking skills. But make no mistake: it's probably the hardest you've ever pushed yourself learning Italian.

I bet you know all the theory about the subjunctive mood in Italian, but you still can't use it comfortably in speech. That's because you were taught theory, and theory doesn't work for speech. Only speech works for speech.

This is how many classes or lessons per week one should take as a learner of Italian (or in general any western languages).

If your life as a language learner has been nothing but flipping through pages in grammar books, there's something you need to hear. And you won't like it.

If you use subtitles, you might want to rethink your listening skills practice strategy. Subtitles are not what they told you they are.