Polyglots On The Road | How To Learn A Language While Traveling | Art of Saudade

Traveling is one of the most fruitful sources of knowledge. The life lessons we learn on the road are unique and priceless. If you’re a language learner, one of the best investments you can make on your language-learning journey is to immerse yourself in your target language. Traveling to any destination can open doors for you to come across people from around the world and … Continue reading Polyglots On The Road | How To Learn A Language While Traveling | Art of Saudade

Top 5 Lessons I Learned From Visiting 5 Countries In One Month | Art of Saudade

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain To travel is to live. To travel is to leave. The first statement refers to the noble feeling of Saudade. The … Continue reading Top 5 Lessons I Learned From Visiting 5 Countries In One Month | Art of Saudade

When Dystopia Makes You Cherish Your Life | Blindness by José Saramago | Art of Saudade

They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them. Psalm 115:5-8  Dystopia is one … Continue reading When Dystopia Makes You Cherish Your Life | Blindness by José Saramago | Art of Saudade

Languages Matter | Polyglot Gathering In Poland 2022 | Art of Saudade

Languages shape our thoughts and the way we see the world. We have all heard the saying “to have another language is to possess a second soul”. Today, more than ever, we can all learn a new language and acquire a new soul.  Find out how Kato Lomb, one of the most efficient polyglots of the 20th century, acquired more than 16 different languages as … Continue reading Languages Matter | Polyglot Gathering In Poland 2022 | Art of Saudade

How Do Polyglots Learn So Many Languages? | The Story Of Kató Lomb | Art of Saudade

Why do some language learners reach fluency faster than others? How come some people can learn more languages than others? Is there such a thing as an “innate ability” for learning foreign languages? Kató Lomb, the most multilingual woman in the 20th century, debunked all the myths about learning languages in her book Polyglot: How I Learn Languages. Born in 1909, in Hungary, she only … Continue reading How Do Polyglots Learn So Many Languages? | The Story Of Kató Lomb | Art of Saudade

Learning to love… the hard way | 122 Years of Erich Fromm | Art of Saudade

March 23, 1900: a boy is born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany. 22 years later and a few years before the Nazi ideology started to rise in Germany, he completed his Ph.D. with a dissertation named “On Jewish Law”. If your teachers are Alfred Weber (brother of the famous sociologist Max Weber), the philosophers Karl Jaspers and Heinrich Rickert, there’s no doubt … Continue reading Learning to love… the hard way | 122 Years of Erich Fromm | Art of Saudade

Learn Absolutely Anything With Mind Mapping | Art of Saudade

Have you ever struggled with learning unfamiliar concepts or ideas?  Have you ever thought there was something wrong with your memory just because you couldn’t retain a simple phrase? Maybe we shouldn’t blame our minds, but the way we were taught to learn. Traditionally, we are used to taking notes in a linear style, creating long texts which are difficult to read and are mentally … Continue reading Learn Absolutely Anything With Mind Mapping | Art of Saudade

Banning Culture | A University In Italy Banned A Course On Dostoevsky | Art of Saudade

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein A few days ago, the University of Milano-Bicocca decided to suspend the course that the writer Paolo Nori was going to give on the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The author himself explained that censoring a literature class is ridiculous.  This is not just ridiculous, it’s … Continue reading Banning Culture | A University In Italy Banned A Course On Dostoevsky | Art of Saudade

How To Find Your Purpose In 4 Simple Steps | Art of Saudade

If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. What if you don’t hate Mondays and you just hate your job? Steve Jobs (no puns intended) reminds you that your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the … Continue reading How To Find Your Purpose In 4 Simple Steps | Art of Saudade

Life is short? | Here is what Seneca and Steve Jobs would reply | Art of Saudade

If I had a dollar every time I heard the phrase “Life is short”, I’d be a billionaire. How much time have we spent complaining about life being too short instead of being grateful for the time we actually have? The Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca invites you to think for a minute. Is life really that short? “It is not that we have a short … Continue reading Life is short? | Here is what Seneca and Steve Jobs would reply | Art of Saudade