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Insults these days can sometimes feel so drab. While once in a while someone will get out a good zinger, too often people rely on F-words, A-words and

“5-4-3-2-1-0 booster ignition and liftoff!” You’ve probably heard the familiar sounds of a spaceship launch countdown at some point, but there are ple

There are languages one learns because it makes geographical sense, connecting you to your neighbors on the map or to people in your own community. Th

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

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When it comes to language learning, there’s no magic bullet. No matter who you are, you’re going to have to put in the work. And the method one person

Ah, music. Isn’t it wonderful? Music and lyrics can take you on the proverbial rollercoaster ride of emotion, from being madly in love to being

Why is a car masculine but a house feminine? There are some questions we’ll never really know the answer to. When you first start learning Spani

The German language doesn’t always make things easy. The Case of the Possessive Genitive S is as complicated as, well, the German concept of case. For

With around 700,000 speakers, Swiss Italian is one of Switzerland’s official languages, and its third most-spoken after Swiss German and Swiss French.

The hardest part of learning Polish, or really any language, isn’t the grammar or the vocab — it’s keeping your motivation up. Language le

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

Soccer, or football as it’s known everywhere else, is truly the world’s game. 43 percent of the global population is interested in soccer, according t