by elihu | Aug 14, 2014 | languages
in no particular order… The most common letter in English is “e”. The most common vowel in English is “e”, followed by “a”. The most common consonant in English is “r”, followed by “t”. Every...
by elihu | Aug 5, 2014 | languages
Words on the brain: from 1 million years ago? All social animals communicate with each other, from bees and ants to whales and apes, but only humans have developed a language which is more than a set of prearranged signals. Our speech even differs in a physical way...
by elihu | Jul 27, 2014 | languages
If at first you don’t succeed, trying again might not help you when it comes to learning languages. by Taboola A new study from MIT shows that trying harder can actually make some aspects of learning a new language more difficult. While researchers have known...
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...
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