by elihu | Jul 13, 2014 | languages
If you’re like me, you’ve wasted time taking online quizzes like the one my friend challenged me to take: Name the 100 most frequently used English words in five minutes. (I got 45.) You could waste all the time you’d like, as Top 100 word lists...
by elihu | Jul 13, 2014 | languages
In terms of pronunciation, English is weird. Especially when your mother tongue is a language where (almost) everything is pronounced the way it’s written. Don’t get me wrong here, I love many things about English, but pronunciation isn’t one of them. There are words...
by elihu | Jul 13, 2014 | languages
Choosing the ten most difficult words in the English language is a difficult task, as different people have different opinions about what the ten most difficult words are. To help me compile my list I asked the B2 Upper Intermediate class at Eurocentres’ Bournemouth...
by elihu | Jun 30, 2014 | languages
We are only a few hours away from El Día E, the big celebration of everyone who speaks Spanish. If you are a native Spanish speaker or made the choice to learn it… CONGRATULATIONS! To close this worldwide celebration, here are 13 cool and interesting facts about the...
by elihu | Jun 24, 2014 | languages
The purpose of this article is to put language difficulty into perspective for native English speakers struggling with foreign languages. Languages like Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, or even easier languages like Spanish, can seem very difficult, just because...
by elihu | Jun 17, 2014 | languages
Portuguese is spoken by about 250 million people in Portugal, Brazil, and other former Portuguese colonies. It is the eighth most spoken language and the third most spoken European language in the world (after English and Portuguese). Portuguese is one of the five...
