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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

What makes language so endlessly fascinating is that it intersects with every other topic you can think of. Learning more about language also means le

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 (

Congratulations! You’ve been chosen as the Representative of the Human Race™ to send a message into space. You have the opportunity to blast something

The age of talking robots is here. Amazon Alexas and Google Assistants are popping up in homes, and most smartphones come with a voice assistant that

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

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

Voting in the United States (and around the world) looks quite a bit different this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Usually the vast majority of pe

When you’re learning Dutch, it’s important to find the right mix of work and play. We won’t sugarcoat the fact that learning grammar

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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

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

There are many, many English TV shows. If you want to use television to learn a language, you have plenty of options. The issue you’ll more like

When we talk about athletes, we’re often focused on their batting average, their running speed, their weight class or their touchdown record. Th