Learn A Foreign Language By Yourself
As a native Dane, something that I’ve noticed when speaking to people from far and wide (and especially the US.. Sorry, Americans!) is that people tend to be confused about my nationality and my language. I’ve lost count of how many times people assumed that the Danish speak Dutch. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t … Read more
Whenever people speak of language learning, or more specifically, difficult languages, two languages are almost always mentioned more than others. Chinese and Japanese. Everybody and their aunt know that these two languages are two of the most complicated tongues out there, at least from the perspective of an English speaker. They are notoriously difficult to … Read more
Arabic and Hebrew are two languages from the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They’re the two most well-known languages in the Middle-East and they’re both the liturgical languages of two important world religions. (That’s Judaism and Islam, in case you’ve been living under a rock!) And finally, in a way, they were both … Read more
Recently, I’ve seen this question posed on the internet. Is Greek a dead language? It’s the kind of question that’s quite easy to answer on the surface, but a little harder if you want to go in depth. Greek is not a dead language. But will it ever become endangered. And what about Ancient or … Read more
I’ve come upon this question on the internet about the Spanish language. “Is Spanish Latin” was the phrase. While I can quite easily say that Spanish and Latin most definitely is not the same thing, it’s clear that Spanish has Latin origins. Latin, or rather Vulgar Latin was the everyday language of the Roman Empire, … Read more
French is a language from the Latin or Romance language family Although it has influences from far and wide, It originally evolved from “Vulgar Latin” which was the everyday language of the Roman Empire. This means that French is closely related to most of the languages that the Roman Empire dominated some 2000 years ago. … Read more
