by elihu | Jun 8, 2014 | languages
| 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...
by elihu | Jun 2, 2014 | languages
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...
by elihu | May 26, 2014 | languages
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...
by elihu | May 18, 2014 | languages
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...
by elihu | May 12, 2014 | languages
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...
by elihu | May 10, 2014 | languages
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,...