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Fluent For Free: How to Learn Any Language at No Cost and Change your Life in the Process

Fluent For Free: How to Learn Any Language at No Cost and Change your Life in the Process

Fluent For Free helps you design a risk-free learning plan to successfully master any language for free.

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Why Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

Exploring the reasons behind the 130-year-old complaint

6 min readJan 20, 2024

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Effective Language Learning

I studied a language 30 minutes a day for 1 year, for free. Here’s what happened.

Hint: not what I expected.

8 min readOct 10, 2023

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Learning a language every day for one year, for free? Hallo?!

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Pragmatic Wisdom

Are You Focused on the Present or the Future?

Finding my truth in a clash of mindsets

4 min read5 hours ago

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Why I Take All Advice With a Grain of Salt

And I mean, ALL advice. Even my own.

5 min read3 days ago

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How to Reclaim Your Childhood Curiosity

#3: What would you do if being good at it wasn’t important?

6 min readMay 4, 2024

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A curious child with glasses looking through a glass window

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Read or Die!

Let’s Face It: Nobody Cares

Embrace the Most Liberating Realization in Life

4 min readApr 30, 2024

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an orange bird sitting on a stick

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ILLUMINATION

5 Reasons Why I Love Being Wrong

There’s hidden magic in what we were taught to avoid

6 min readApr 24, 2024

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The question “right?” written on a pavement.

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Pragmatic Wisdom

How I Deal with My Past for a Fairer Future

And an inspirational story about an elephant

4 min readApr 17, 2024

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children sitting on a bench looking at nature

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How I Overcame the Greatest Challenge in Learning (And Taught Myself 9 Languages, Online Marketing…

And a story of how I failed at a subject even though I succeeded

4 min readApr 14, 2024

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the word “impossible” on a chalkboard, and a hand hiding the “im” to make it look like it says “possible”.

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The Dark Side of Productivity

More people can and should talk about this

6 min readApr 13, 2024

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What our online world looks like: a laptop in the dark, saying “do more”.

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Maria Writes Things

Maria Writes Things

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Recovering perfectionist, challenging myself and what people consider the norm. I write about society, self-help, and language learning. https://t.ly/42Ar9

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