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Traveling across Europe in 15 days

Europe, the continent of concentrated cultures and civilizations, is an ideal location for hopping from city to city in little time and yet experience a complete change of scenery. So, whether you are European or from another continent, you are doubtlessly craving to explore all of it. That would be a daunting task, however, it […]
November 25, 2020
Should I learn how to speak Esperanto?

What is Esperanto? Esperanto is a constructed language, invented by Jewish-Polish eye doctor Zamenhof in the late 19th century. The story behind the creation of this language is linked to Dr. Zamenhof’s hometown. At a crossroads of wars in Europe, the town was split among German, Russian, Polish, and Jewish communities, that could not get […]
October 25, 2020
Language Teaching in French School

Education in France includes the teaching of two to three foreign languages until the pupils end secondary education. They can choose among English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and some more. What are the most popular choices nowadays? Les français speak English, mais hablan español también French pupils get to choose their first foreign language at […]
June 02, 2020
Marketing, Business, Social Media… Jobs where you’re wanted for your language skills!

When you’re about to start college or university, the question of your professional future is an essential one. Of course, most of us pick something we are interested in, a subject we were good at in high school, that we feel attracted to, or simply that we have experienced before and want to get a […]
April 05, 2020
Top 10 tips to learn new words and remember them

Whether it is in a foreign language or in a specific lexical field of your own language, that you are not familiar with, it is hard to learn new words, especially in the long run. The scope of this article focuses on assimilating words in a foreign language, however you can use most of these […]
March 13, 2020
Ogham

Ogham or Ogam, pronounced “o’m” or “oem”, is an alphabet from the 4th century used to write the old Irish language. Ogham is found engraved on stones. There are only 382 relics found with such inscriptions, most of them in Ireland, the rest in Scotland, Wales, England and on the Isle of Man. Divine inscriptions […]
November 29, 2019
Breizh: an Endangered Regional Language?

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, in the west of France. In 2007, only 206,000 people claimed to speak it. Since the 80s, there are no more monolingual Breton speakers. Is Breton in phase of becoming a dead language? It is and it is not. True, the UNESCO acknowledged Breton as a “seriously […]
November 12, 2019
5 mad ways to practise your language skills

So, you’ve just arrived in a new country, eager to put all that theoretical knowledge you have striven to learn into practice. Then you realise it is not that easy, being in a new place can be rather lonely and when you have sorted out all the paperwork and other duties you cannot avoid, you […]
October 25, 2019
Viennoiseries: Danish, French, or Austrian?

Upon finishing their school-days, French pupils are usually treated to a tasty viennoiserie before facing their homework. Thank God I did not escape that tradition and I must confess, it did make my day a lot better – I was almost willing to do my math exercises. French children have the 4 PM viennoiserie, we […]
September 05, 2019
Is English the official language of music?

It seems to be challenging for other languages to break the international charts, let alone selling over 20 million records to enter the legendary most selling albums – Andrea Bocelli, who sings in Italian, looks rather lonely in this table. Is English better than other languages? English sells well, nobody will question that. It does […]
August 11, 2019