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If you want to stay on a Polish person’s good side, there are three major faux pas you’ll want to avoid. One is making any sort of ahistor

Of the hundreds of science-fiction movies about aliens coming to Earth, very few address the challenges of actually communicating with extraterrestria

Whether you’re committing to your German lessons for the long haul or brushing up before a trip, you should probably make sure you know how to s

When you think “English accent,” maybe you immediately imagine someone who speaks as poshly as the royal family. This accent — called “Received Pronun

It is safe to say that in 2020, nothing went the way we had imagined. Everyone around the world felt the changes a global pandemic brought with it and

Want to learn a language while exercising at the same time? It almost sounds too good to be true. Knocking out two of your life goals simultaneously i

Turkish is a fascinating language, even though it’s not necessarily an obvious choice for second-language study. But if you’re curious and

The anti-productivity movement is taking hold, particularly within the breathless culture of hustle and self-improvement that is the United States. Th

English may be a global lingua franca, but the way it’s spoken is very different from place to place. Here are some useful American English word

Word order, as the name implies, is how words are arranged in a sentence. The words “I saw Sam” can’t be rearranged as “I Sam saw,” “Saw Sam I” or any

If you only ever had exposure to a single language, it would be easy to take certain aspects of it for granted. You might assume that all languages ha

Each spring, countries across Europe (and a few other continents) compete in one of the most grueling kinds of competition: a song contest. To the uni

Switzerland has a population of around 8.5 million people, who live in an area about the size of the tiny U.S. states of Vermont and New Hampshire com

When I was in middle school, I ran with a group of friends so tight that kids called us “the groupies.” I didn’t really understand what that meant—bei

So, you want to move to Montreal or Quebec City. Often billed as a slice of Europe within North America, it’s easy to see the appeal. As French-speaki