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Venice is possibly the strangest and most fascinating city in all of Italy. Is it because of the lack of cars  — not counting tourists and vaporetti (

Ask anyone what they think of the Russian language, and you’ll likely hear the same answer: Difficult! And if you believe the negative stereotyp

Norwegian pronunciation is a tricky beast to master, and not just because it’s riddled with vowel sounds that don’t come naturally to anyo

As a beginner on your quest toward Danish literacy, you might be weighing whether you have sufficient reasons to learn Danish. It’s definitely n

Despite the United States being a multilingual melting pot, the relationship between American politics and foreign language isn’t a particularly close

What makes an entree a country’s national dish? That’s not an easy question to answer. While many countries officially adopt official symb

“Say I love you to someone, but say it in German because life is confusing and scary,” goes one version of this popular meme. Life, emotio

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The hardest concepts to grasp in a new language are the ones that don’t have an equivalent in your native language. English doesn’t have a

Just as there’s a wide range of ways to greet someone in Turkish, so, too, are there various ways to say goodbye in Turkish. A lot depends on ho

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

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

Learning a language is a little like going to the gym. Everyone says you should do it. You tell yourself you should do it. The difficulty lies in actu

Is there anything more daunting than learning a language from scratch? Libra here, the most indecisive of star signs, telling you that I don’t think s

Europe can be a tricky thing to define. According to the Ancient Greeks, Europa was the beautiful princess abducted by Zeus and taken to the island of