Learn A Foreign Language By Yourself
Swahili is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa and it’s the single most commonly spoken language in the world that has its origin on the African continent. There are many good reasons to learn Swahili. It’ll allow you to communicate with people from the wide range of African countries where Swahili is … Read more
Spain and Portugal are the two countries that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula. They’re actually so close, that people could be tempted to think that they were one and the same country. They do, actually, share a great deal of history, they have very similar cultures and their languages are closely related. But do the Portuguese … Read more
OK, so you want to learn either German or Russian, but you can’t decide. I’m going to try and help you pick one, even though this might not be the easiest of tasks. Both languages belong to big countries with huge populations, rich cultures, and interesting histories. They both have their own, distinctive “sound” to … Read more
Romania used to be a socialist republic on the eastern block with strong ties to Russia. In addition to that, the country shares its borders with Ukraine, a country where Russian is widely spoken, and Romanian, although not a Slavic language, has many Slavic loan-words, and some would even say, a Slavic sound to it. … Read more
Polish and German are two Central European languages spoken by very big populations in Poland and Germany. (But German is also spoken in countries like Austria, Switzerland, and other countries). German is – as the name suggests – a Germanic language. Okay, you might have figured out as much, but what you might not know … Read more
Something that many Korean learners are surprised to discover when first beginning to study the language is, that Hangul, the Korean alphabet actually is nothing like other alphabets. Many assume that the Korean writing system has thousands of individual symbols like the Chinese characters, or that it might be a script that gradually evolved from … Read more
French and Italian are two related languages belonging to the Romance branch of Indo-European languages. They’re both known for their rich history and culture, their magnificent cuisine, and for being beautiful, elegant languages. If you were to learn one of them, however, which one would be easier? Italian is simpler for an English speaker in … Read more
Bahasa Indonesia is a language belonging to the Austronesian family of languages and a little more precisely, the Malay group of languages. It’s spoken by 40-45 million, mainly in Indonesia, and it’s quite an interesting language! Many languages in Asia, like Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai use tones when pronouncing words. Tones are different changes … Read more
The Hungarian language is a very special European language. It’s spoken almost exclusively in Hungary by some 13 million people and its closest European relative, Finnish Estonian are quite distant both geographically and linguistically. Hungary is located in Central Europe. It borders no less than 7 different countries who speak 7 different languages from both … Read more
Hindi is recognized as the world’s fourth most widely spoken language, yet people don’t exactly agree about what the Hindi language actually is and what it isn’t. Because of this, it can be difficult to actually date the Hindi language and decide how old it is, because what actually makes it Hindi? When people speak … Read more
