BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE IS THE BEST LANGUAGE
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...
Interesting Facts About English
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...
HISTORY OF LANGUAGE
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...
Want to Learn a Language? Don’t Try So Hard
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...
Making Every Word Count
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...
10 MOST DIFFICULT ENGLISH WORDS TO PRONOUNCE
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...
The ten most difficult words in the English language
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...
13 Cool and Interesting Facts About the Spanish Language
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...
Ten Reasons Why English is a Hard Language
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...
The Portuguese Language
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...