I was born in 1992 and grew up living in Bulgaria. In school I was way ahead of the class in English. You know what my secret was? Cartoon Network. There is no such thing as a “language gene”, we all can learn as many languages as we need, we just need to forget techniques that school uses and make it interesting.

Many people say that polyglots are born to be good at learning languages and it is not for everybody. Well I’m here to break this barrier. Everybody can be good at languages, we just need to find a fun way to do it. For me the fun way is Television, TV shows, Movies, Podcasts. Let me tell you how I do it.

I was never good at learning languages, except from English because I grew up watching Cartoon Network a lot and I loved the language since it associated with fun stuff like cartoons. It was hard for me to cram words from a vocabulary, use those silly exercise books where you need to write a word into a sentence that fits. And the fact that everybody around repeated to me that “it will get harder with age to learn new languages” scared the shit out of me.

I never actually analysed why learning English was so easy for me. But then I moved from my parents home and moved in with my friend which spent the last few years in Germany. Everyday she was watching Movies in German language and I watched it with her. And you know what happened? I started to understand what they are talking about.

You don’t need to be a genius to learn a new language or have some kind of “language gene” you just need to make your learning process fun.

The next thing I did I bought a VPN. I connected to Germany and German language was everywhere I go online. Starting from annoying Youtube ads, they became not that annoying anymore, they became my learning tool. Even the google search, gmail, pages I visited that in a help of VPN were all in German was a tool for learning. The most I learned was while watching my favorite TV shows like Friends or The Simpsons in German. I even listen to podcast on my way to work in an unknown language that became closer and closer to me everyday.

At first it will be just babbling words for you, but just wait, the words will become to make sense.

Let yourselves dive into the unknown language by making it fun, let yourself don’t understand what the Simpsons are saying, try to repeat and even laugh at the pronunciation of the words. And this will make you learn, just be patient.

We all can be polyglots if we have the right tools.