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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

Second to Christmas, Halloween is one of the most anticipated holidays in many countries around the world. But where did it originate? What are its ti

If you’ve lived in the United States since birth, you’ve been inundated with American politics. Talking about elections comes as naturally as breathin

It’s not your fault if you’ve been conditioned to believe that your best language-learning years are already behind you. It’s a pers

Learning a new language requires a variety of skills. Beyond learning the vocabulary and grammar, it is also important to develop a feeling for the na

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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

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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

There are any number of reasons a person might change their accent. Actors use accents to convincingly pretend they’re from other places. Politicians

The first thing you need to understand about saying sorry in Russian is that if you’re American, your internal gauge of “how often it&#821

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a notepad, pen and a spare pair of underwear are the three items that any good reporter has in their posse

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

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.

To be fair, you were probably warned, but you chose the path of linguistic violence anyway. Russian doesn’t have a very approachable brand — it&