FREE Language Learning Resources

Before moving to Central Asia in 2008 I was fortunate to spend time at Mission Training International (MTI) in Colorado doing some pre-field training.  This included two weeks of language training with Dwight and Barbara Gradin.  We were not learning our target language but rather receiving training to be more effective and efficient language learners.

That training set the stage for becoming a language coach and the writer behind The Everyday Language Learner.  The goal was to help as many people as possible be successful language learners and in the process create a location independent business which would allow continued work throughout the Muslim world regardless of whether we lived there or not.

When we returned to the states in 2012, my goal was to continue to grow this online business model.  Traffic grew.  Influence grew.  But I lacked the business acumen to really make a go of things.  And so in 2014, The Everyday Language Learner went away.  I moved on and see now all that God was doing to prepare me through those years for the work I'm doing now to mobilize and train the church into the harvest.

I want to share with you a few resources that were created during that season.  The three resources below are ebooks that you can downloard for free.  I hope that they will help you learn another language so that you can more effectively share the gospel. 

Enjoy and share them with others.


Before You Move Overseas:  This workbook is a blueprint for the weeks and months BEFORE you board the plane.  In it you will find actions that, when implemented, will help you prepare for the language learning journey.  This workbook is filled  with the actions I wish someone had encouraged me to take in that year before moving. The bulk of this guide then is made up of ten actions you can take over the coming months before you move.  [Read it Here]



Activities and Strategies for Everyday Language Learners:  This ebook is a collection of 56 articles from the Everyday Language Learner blog focusing primarily on practical, hands-on activities you can do in your personal study time, with a language helper or out in the community.  This is a 243 page ebook!   [Read it Here]


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The Everyday Language Learner's Guide to Getting Started: This is the most robust guide I wrote and in it I give all the information needed to be a self-directed, independent language learner.  [You can download a zip file from the bottom right of the Resource Page]



​Most cross cultural work will require the learning of another language.  It is essential to be able to effectively communicate the gospel.  I hope that these resources will help you on the language learning journey.

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