Favorite books – Lindie Botes – Languages & Design

Recommended books

What I've been reading & loving

Atomic Habits

Great for productivity and habit-building to boost your language learning methods! Practical tips to apply to your daily life.

How to Speak Any Language Fluently

Alex Rawlings is a renowned polyglot and this is book is full of his wisdom on how to start a language, keep a schedule, and maintain consistency.

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

I can't put into words how much I loved this. It goes deep into the things that make us human, like identity, memory and even disasters. Beautiful!

Deep Work

Sometimes aspirational, but the ideals that Cal Newport sets forth in his book will motivate and encourage you to work in a focused way.

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Fascinating arguments presented by Pinker suggest that humans have an innate capacity for language.

Four Thousand Weeks - Time and How to Use It

Author Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - a unique perspective at looking at how much time we have on earth and what to do with it.

Goodbye, Things - The New Japanese Minimalism

A fascinating book about the art of Japanese minimalism that might just inspire you to become a minimalist yourself!

Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

This book helped me figure out how to thoroughly say yes to what matters and no to what isn't essential, and to learn the difference.

1 Corinthians 13v1: I may speak in the languages of humans and of angels. But if I don’t have love, I am a loud gong or a clashing cymbal.

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