Learn A Foreign Language By Yourself
Czech is the language of some 11 million people, mostly in the Czech republic. It’s a Western-Slavic language closely related to Polish and Slovak and it’s got the reputation of being a fairly difficult language. But how hard is the Czech language really to learn for an English speaker if you learn it by yourself? … Read more
Mandarin Chinese is the language of China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore. It’s spoken by around 1.3 billion people, making it the most spoken language on the planet. It’s closely related to another Chinese language, Cantonese, and its known for its writing system, its tones and the fact that it’s quite difficult to learn. … Read more
French and German are two of the most important European languages. One have the reputation of being the language of love. The other is said to sound hard and aggressive. But which one is easier to learn for an English speaker? German words and French words – which are easier to learn? The German language … Read more
Dutch is a West-Germanic language closely related to English and German. Some might even say that it looks like a mix between the two. It’s spoken by over 24 million people in the Netherlands and Belgium and it’s a language that some people consider hard to learn. But how difficult is Dutch really? In my … Read more
Bengali is the language of over 230 million people in the world. It’s the language of Bangladesh and Eastern India and belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family, which in turn is part of the Indo-European group of languages. This means that Bengali is remotely related to most European languages, English included. It’s definitely not a … Read more
The Turkish language is one of the bigger and most popular languages in the Turkic language family. It’s a language that more and more people get interested in in today’s world whether it be for touristic, cultural, business related or other reasons. This is also why a growing number of people decide to try and … Read more
Romanian is a language of around 25 million speakers in the world. It’s the unlikely cousin of French, Spanish and Italian being of the Latin language family. It’s geographic location and its long history has meant, however, that the language is strongly influenced by the Slavic languages such as Bulgarian. Romanian has more than 10% … Read more
Polish is a Western-Slavic language with around 50 millions speakers in the world. It’s widely regarded as a difficult language to learn! But how long would it take you, the average English speaker to learn Polish? It depends on so much… We’ve already established (or supposed) that you’re an average English speaker, so let’s assume … Read more
The Korean language has got the reputation of being one of the most difficult languages to learn for an English speaker. There’s no doubt that the language is difficult, but it also has elements that make it easier than other languages that are regarded difficult like Arabic and Mandarin. Is the Korean language hard to … Read more
Hindi is the fifth most spoken language on the planet. There are 320 million native speakers of this beautiful and exotic language. And then it’s not even that exotic. Hindi, like most European languages, belong to the “Indo-European” language family. This means that even though India is far away, it’s related to English, French and … Read more
