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...
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...
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