Memorizing is one of the activities you’ll be doing plenty of when learning a new language. And that goes whether you like memorizing or not. It’s the first step to building a rich vocabulary — one word at a time. Traditionally, memorizing is done by simple repetition. Read a word, say it aloud and repeat […]

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The rolled r comes up in so many languages. I’ve heard it in various forms in Czech, Thai, Hungarian, Tagalog and of course in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. And yet it seems to be something that evades native English speakers. The laziest of them will just give up entirely and use the bullshit excuse of […]

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There is little that irks British defenders of the English language more than Americanisms, which they see creeping insidiously into newspaper columns and everyday conversation. But bit by bit British English is invading America too. “Spot on – it’s just ludicrous!” snaps Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. “You are […]

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Learning Spanish is necessary to keep pace with popular culture. Learning Spanish is actually a medical device! For many, learning Spanish is rapidly becoming a business necessity. Spanish, Spanish everywhere. Learning Spanish will (truly) expand your universe. Knowing Spanish will completely transform your travel experience. Knowing how to speak Spanish will enable you to help others. There are reasons […]

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  10 good reasons why you should be learning a foreign language “I speak English, so I don’t have to learn a foreign language….” Everyone speaks English, right? Well, certainly not everyone speaks English. According to the CIA World Fact Book, only 5.6 % of the world’s total population speaks English as a primary language. […]

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