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5 Facts That You Did Not Know About the French Language

Many people who choose to learn French don’t really bother to find out the background to this wonderful language. If in fact, you look at some of the facts about the French language you will find out...

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The Difficulty of Ancient Languages Compared to Modern Ones

Here’s an interesting discussion about this on the r/askscience subreddit on Reddit. I personally like the theory supported by John McWorther: as languages are left to their own devises (mainly lack of...

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How to Effectively Translate an Idiom

If you want a quick answer to the question of how to translate an idiom, then the simplestone is, there isn’t. Any linguist who’s been faced with translating an idiom has gotten stuck on more than one...

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Gaining the Confidence to Speak to Native Speakers

If you really want to speak fluently in a foreign language, you’ll have to just bite the bullet, put shyness and embarrassment behind you and give it a go. Throw caution to the wind! It really is the...

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Making a Living as a Language Fan

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5 Important Qualities of Good Professional Interpreter

5 Important Qualities of Good Professional Interpreter Globalization has brought in people from different regions on single platform to carry out business, impart education, exchange cultures, and...

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For Russian practice, check out Russian Blog

I have written about how to learn Russian on your own, and how to do so with Russian bilingual translations in Interlinear. Currently, there’s a new resource that I want to talk about: the Russian...

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Differences between ar and arba in Lithuanian

These two words are different, so let’s talk about the differences (or: skirtumas tarp ar ir arba lietuvių kalboje). Arba: Arba denotes things that exclude each other, similar to either, or. E.g....

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Quiz: Which Language Should You Learn?

Before you begin learning greetings, numbers, days of the week, etc, you have to decide which foreign language you’d like to learn. This can be a challenge for some, as there are so many beautiful and...

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New etymology website launches today at Etymologeek.com

Are you curious about words and their origins? We are too, and hence we are launching a free online etymology website called Etymologeek.com. We launched this product in collaboration with Ester who...

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