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The first thing you need to learn about saying “sorry” in French is that you probably won’t say it nearly as much as you might be in

Family is a huge part of, really, every culture in the world. But if you’re learning to talk about family in German, you might need to learn som

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Even if you’ve never actively learned any French, you probably know a few words here and there. One reason for this is because English and French go w

On February 21, Mother Language Day promotes linguistic diversity and action against language discrimination. During the Covid-19 pandemic, language e

Parts of speech are the building blocks of grammar. You were probably taught them at a very young age, but they can be trickier than you remember. Sur

English is the most-spoken language in the world, and it can be found spread far and wide. While there’s no official lingua franca for the plane

If you’ve ever decided to read a few “classic” Spanish books in your free time, you might have come across a strange expression or a word

The average human sleeps about eight hours a night for, on average, 75 years. That adds up to around two hundred and 22,000 hours in a lifetime. What

There’s something fundamental about using flashcards when you’re in the process of learning. You probably have some memory of using flashcards t

Portuguese is among the 10 most spoken languages in the world, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in Portugal. Curious about how many people spea

The sun is shining, birds are birding and spring is springing here in the United States. Soon, millions of revelers will be racking up bar tabs in cel

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

You’ve used punctuation your whole life, and it might come as second nature to you (well, except for those tricky semicolons). Even if you can t

One thing you’ll learn quickly as a language student? There isn’t always one catch-all “sorry” term in every language that enc