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Email is an effective and rapid method of response in today’s professional environment; therefore, producing appropriate emails is critical and must be developed strategically. Professional success demands that email communication be clear, concise and devoid of cultural insensitivities in language. Below are questions to help you evaluate your own email strength: What method do you […]

Do you know how your brain works when you are learning a new language? You will start storing a lot of new information, like a cellphone receiving messages: they are stored in memory. As you keep receiving input, you start to relate it to what you know: your mother tongue. As a result, you will […]

“Sorry, no habla español” if this is what you say when you meet interesting people or interact with new clients, then you are missing a lot. Knowing a second language, specifically Spanish here in America, multiplies exponentially your opportunities to enjoy the world, enriches your life and expands your business relationships. Furthermore, it improves your […]

1. The English language contains the most words 250,000 2. At least half of the world’s population is bilingual 3. There are over 7,000 languages worldwide 4. Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the world 5. French is the main foreign language taught in the UK 6. The United States has no “official […]

Becoming bilingual is on a lot of people’s bucket list. If you’re one of them, there are three keys to becoming successful. Interested? Read on! You’ll need a friend, family member or teacher to practice speaking with. The main reason to become bilingual is to have the pleasure of carrying on a conversation with someone […]

Eric is a beginner language learner eager to learn French. He knows that fluency in la langue de Molière will boost his career prospects, and while he’s not a big fan of French cinema (is there such a person?), he can’t wait to travel to southern France next year and immerse himself in the local culture. […]

We’re always looking for little life hacks in hopes of improving the way our brain works. We’ve tried eating walnuts, solving one too many crossword puzzles, depleting our Sudoku collection, and reading countless stacks of books. Yet, despite all these little things, nothing we try really seems to amp up our brainwaves to any appreciable […]

    A new study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests people who speak two languages have more gray matter in the executive control region of the brain. In past decades, much has changed about the understanding of bilingualism. Early on, bilingualism was thought to be a disadvantage because the presence of two vocabularies would lead […]

Want to Be Smart? Learn a Foreign Language In an interconnected world, being multilingual helps you forge valuable global connections and increase your chances of making it big in the world of business. But being multilingual is good for your brain too. In a recent study, scientists report that people who speak two languages have […]

7 Surprising Benefits of Learning a New Language (Backed by Research) There have been numerous studies pointing to the benefits of learning a new language. Yet, recent study shows that only 18% of Americans can fluently speak two or more languages.   Part of the reason is that learning a new language only becomes an interest to […]

Speaking More Than One Language Eases Stroke Recovery   There are ways to reduce your risk of having a stroke — for example, you can exercise more and not smoke. But should a stroke occur, you might also be able to reduce your risk of losing brain function if you are a speaker of more […]

How many times you had the feeling that you are lost with a new subject at work? If you are like most people, probably many times… But don’t worry! This is really common in our days because we live in a very dynamic environment, with a lot of new information to handle every day and […]

Top 10 Learning Chinese Problems & Solutions “We are native speakers, but our kids refuse to speak Chinese or learn the culture” Unfortunately, some children who have native speaking Chinese parents refuse to learn Chinese. This is often done in the teenager years as a method of defiance to establish their power as they become […]

1. You’ll be Equipped for Future Opportunities Learning to speak Chinese is a great way to give your children an advantage in the increasingly competitive business world. Between equal foreign competitors courting a Chinese company, who will the company choose to associate with: a Chinese-speaking foreigner or a foreigner with a translator? China is emerging from […]

The first question any thoughtful person might ask when reading the title of this essay is, “Hard for whom?” A reasonable question. After all, Chinese people seem to learn it just fine. When little Chinese kids go through the “terrible twos”, it’s Chinese they use to drive their parents crazy, and in a few years […]

Our most important piece of advice is: “Do something (anything). If you don’t do anything, you won’t get anywhere. Make it your hobby, not a chore. Above all have fun! Oh, and don’t be in too much of a hurry. You’re setting off on a long journey and there will be delays and frustrations along […]

If you’re a first-time language learner, you know that emotional ups and downs come with the territory. When you understand a concept or begin to comprehend the language, you may experience feelings of exhilaration. However, these are often followed by moments of frustration and discouragement, during which you might feel as if you will never […]

The English language belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The closest undoubted living relatives of English are Scots and Frisian. Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland, in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the […]

Arabic is now the 6th most spoken language in the world and is spoken by more than 200 million people worldwide. Arabic started off as a language that was only spoken by a small population. Nomadic tribes would travel around the Arabian Peninsula and speak Arabic, a language they were very proud of. Prose, poetry […]

Myths and Facts Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today’s world except for Japan and Korea (which continue to make partial use of writing borrowed from China long ago). Even […]

The English language is a very important language that everyone should master to prosper in life. It is also an International language that is commonly used. I believe that every individual should have keen interest to study English as it can help them to achieve a lot of things in their lives. As a student, […]

There is increasing evidence that bilingualism can affect how the brain works. Older, lifelong bilinguals have demonstrated better cognitive skills in tasks that require increased cognitive control. These cognitive effects are most pronounced in bilingual people who speak two languages in their everyday life for many years, compared to those who speak a second language but don’t […]

Today, the Spanish language is used by approximately 332 million speakers, and it is second only to Chinese as the most commonly spoken language in the world. In the Americas, Spanish is the most widespread first language, and native Spanish speakers can also be found throughout Europe, the United States, the Pacific Islands, and even […]

Have you ever had this thought, “What will look good on my college application?” Most students have. There is one thing that can influence a college’s or company’s decision for the better about accepting or hiring a person, and this is by learning a second language. As people from other countries continue to immigrate into […]

There are many reasons to learn English, but because it is one of the most difficult languages to learn it is important to focus on exactly why it is you want to learn English. Here we will look at ten great reasons why English is so important. Post this list somewhere you can see it […]

There’s a certain sinking feeling one gets when thinking of the perfect thing to say just a moment too late. Perhaps a witty parting word could have made all the difference. There is no English word to express this feeling, but the French have the term l’esprit de l’escalier—translated, “stairwell wit”—for this very phenomenon. Nor is […]

The importance of foreign language study is best realized by studying one. The accomplishing feeling you get on learning a foreign language, the enrichment in you that the language brings, can be felt only by experience. There are many reasons why one should learn a foreign language. Firstly, learning a language of another country helps […]

If we all start using them, these words can be resurrected. DURING MY UNDERGRADUATE studies as a Linguistics major, one of the things that struck me most is the amazing fluidity of language. New words are created; older words go out of style. Words can change meaning over time, vowel sounds shift, consonants are lost […]

If you want a decent return on your investment, says Helen Joyce, the best language to learn is Brazilian Portuguese Some lunatics learn languages for fun. The rest of us are looking for a decent return on our investment. That means choosing a language with plenty of native speakers. One spoken by people worth talking […]

    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 syllable in English must have a vowel (sound). Not all syllables have consonants. Only two English words in […]

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 from the communication of other animals. It […]

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 that adults have a harder time with new languages than […]

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 abound. Word-frequency rankings are part — albeit just a […]

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 that no matter how many times I practise saying, they just […]

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 school and we have chosen some good examples.  The biggest problem […]

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 Spanish language. 13 Cool and Interesting Facts […]

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 we’re not used to them. English seems sooo easy and simple, but that’s because we’ve been raised […]

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 modern Romance languages, together with Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian. It was originated in what […]

| Italian language facts The world’s most musical language and the lingua franca of music, Italian is spoken by around 58 million people in Italy, 24,000 in San Marino, 840,000 in Switzerland, and approximately 5 million in North and South America. Traces can be found in Libya and Somalia as well, both former colonies. Over the […]

1. Spanish is spoken by 500 million people with a growing trend that will reach 600 million speakers by 2050. –Source: Instituto Cervantes 2. Spanish was the diplomatic language up to the 18th century. –Source: BBC 3. There have been 11 Literature Nobel Prizes in Spanish: José Echegaray (Spain, 1904); Jacinto Benavente (Spain, 1922); Gabriela […]

Information on the modern Romance languages The word romance connotes love and wooing, but when it has a capital R, as in Romance languages, it probably refers to a set of languages based on Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, but the classical Latin that was written […]

Learning a foreign language from scratch is a difficult task for children and for adults. But there are some fun ways to learn a language: Children’s learning material No matter how old you are, children’s books have a very easy approach of explaining the basics of a language. They also have a lot of visual […]

Once you decided to learn a new language, it would be useful to know which are the most spoken languages in the world. And if you think that, once you speak English, the next language you could learn should be German or French, think again. Here we have the Top 7 list of the most […]

I needed to buy a heating pad, but did not know where in the oversized pharmacy it would be sold. Despite not wanting to, I decided to ask the pharmacist. What came out of my mouth made very little sense, though. The only question I could think to ask was, “Where can I buy something […]

Learning a foreign language is one the most rewarding and beneficial learning tasks I can think of. Even if you only have the time to learn the basics, you get such a boost in cultural understanding and ability to move around in a foreign land. As of today, I am fluent in three languages, and […]

One of the more common questions that arrive for the Q&A section asks how many words there are in the English language. Almost as common are requests for the average size of a person’s vocabulary. These sound like easy questions; I have to tell you that they’re indeed easy to ask. But they’re almost impossible […]

Which is the best language to learn? Which is the easiest? Two different questions, often uttered in the same breath. But that’s okay, because there will be only one answer. Whichever language you wholeheartedly choose to study will be both the best and the easiest. However, here’s some help choosing. The choices. Here is the […]

Learning a foreign language takes time and dedication. The reasons below may help to convince you to take the plunge, if such persuasion is needed. Some reasons are practical, some aspirational, some intellectual and others sentimental, but whatever your reasons, having a clear idea of why you’re learning a language can help to motivate you […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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. […]

Spanish-speaking people make up the largest group of bilingual employees in the U.S. The importance of having bilingual speakers in the workplace has grown as the number of people who speak languages other than English has increased. Businesses that take advantage of adding bilingual speakers to their payrolls can benefit extensively because of the larger […]

Non-native English speakers in a battle to be understood February 29, 2008|BY ELIZABETH BAIER STAFF WRITER Stella Santana, a native of Uruguay who has taken English classes for six years, considers her grammar and reading skills in English as advanced. But as an administrative assistant for the luxury W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, she tires […]

Is it time to be a bilingual nation? Let’s continue the conversation… I recently met with Levenger store staff members in Tysons Corner, Virginia, which is just inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway. After talking shop, I asked them to tell me what languages, besides English, they spoke. Here are their names and answers: Adnan Abdillahi: […]

How the Brain Benefits from Being Bilingual Being bilingual definitely has its benefits when it comes to jobs. Most employers are willing to pay you a higher salary for being fluent in two or more languages, but this isn’t the only perk. Your brain also benefits from bilingualism. Believe it or not, being bilingual makes […]

Who says learning a foreign tongue is best left to the young?   There I was—69 years old and going off on the adventure of a lifetime (my lifetime, anyway): starting over in a new country—Mexico—where they spoke a language in which I’d never had one day of instruction. People warned me, “At your age, it won’t […]

Why speaking a second language can make you brainier: Bilinguals have better memories and problem solving abilities. U.S. researchers believe bilingualism strengthens the brain’s executive functions, such as its working memory And bilinguals subconsciously use and control both languages constantly They conducted two experiments to explore whether fluent bilinguals actively chose which language to think […]

“Learning another language can promote brain growth, stave off dementia, boost memory, improve attention and more…” People used to think that learning two languages created confusion in the mind. Far better, it was thought, to get one right than bother with two. An even more extreme and absurd view was that learning two languages caused […]

The treaty of Tordesillas settled the questions of possession of the new lands between Spain and Portugal. It was agreed that territories lying East of a meridian 370 leagues West of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Portugal, the lands to the West of Spain. This imaginary line from pole to pole, cut through […]

Below are several helpful resources for people learning Spanish. English to Spanish Translation – http://www.spanishdict.com/ Spanish prepositions – http://www.learnspanishfeelgood.com/spanish-prepositions.html http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html http://www.learner.org/series/destinos/watch/ http://lomastv.com/?gclid=CNntyoHFyaYCFcXD7QodKnubFw Spanish Language and Culture – http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/index.htm http://www.drlemon.com/Grammar/irreg-pret.html http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/spanish/ http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/Spanish/Medical_terms/firstaid.html http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/pagina-no-encontrada.html

The study of how people process foreign languages has traditionally focused on the topics we wrestled with in high school French or Spanish classes — botched grammar, misunderstood vocabulary, and mangled phonemes. But in recent years psychologists have gone to the laboratory with a phenomenon that historically was only discussed in memoirs by bilingual writers […]

“Language is often regarded as something you use to get by in your life. But language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being who knows how to speak as well as how to communicate with others. I think we have to draw a line between these two approaches: either you use words […]

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes […]

Thinking of learning Spanish with a friend, family member or colleague? Sign up for our private lessons and bring a friend along for no extra cost! Learning a language with another person is fun and it allows you to continue the conversation practice outside the lessons. Our experienced instructors will customize the course to meet […]

Houston Spanish Lessons Enhance Marketability ¿Hablas español? Do you speak Spanish? If so, you’re hired! Need to separate yourself from other applicants in today’s competitive job market? Studies show that applicants who take a Spanish class are more likely to land a job and receive a higher salary than their monolingual counterparts. In fact, many […]

Great article on Bilingualism. Excerpt below, “Speaking multiple languages may be an advantage in more ways than one: a new study suggests that bilinguals are speedier task-switchers than monolinguals.” Read More…

USEFUL WORDS IN BRAZIL Good morning – “Bom dia” Good afternoon – “Boa tarde” Good night – “Boa noite” What’s your name? – “Como é o seu nome?” My name is Paulo – “Meu nome é Paulo” My name is Dilce, nice to meet you. – “Meu nome é Dilce, muito prazer” Nice to meet […]

THE LANGUAGE BARRIER 1. If you know a little bit of Portuguese use it. It will go a long way in cementing the business relationship. Speak it. It is a sign of respect, a demonstration that you are interested in at least trying. They really appreciate the fact that you are willing to appear less […]

Business Etiquette in Brazil 1. It is extremely impolite to get right down to business. 2. Proper greetings and sufficient time spent on small talk sets up the right atmosphere. 3. The use of language is critical (The formal Senhor and the informal Voce). Getting a feel for being friendly and familiar without being pushy […]

RELATIONSHIPS 1. The most important objective for a person doing business in Brazil is to build relationships, and above all, relationships with the right people. It is frequently more important who you know than what you know. 2. Brazilians favor relationships over money. (“It is more important to have friends than money”), Brazilians are taught […]

Great article: What’s the secret to learning a second language? http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/whats_the_secret_to_learning_a_second_lanuage/

                Why is Spanish sometimes referred to as Castilian or castellano?             An answer to that question requires a brief look at how the Spanish             language developed to its current form. What we know as Spanish is             primarily a derivative of Latin, which arrived on the Iberian             Peninsula (the peninsula […]

Be Bilingual, Inc., a Houston language school is looking for part time French, English and Spanish teachers. All applicants must meet the following qualifications: Be a native speaker, (only native speakers may apply). Must have a bachelor’s degree. Have at least one year of experience teaching conversational language to adults. Location: Galleria Area Please email […]