What if you could learn up to 75% of daily vocabulary in just 1000 words? Having gone through the process of learning a foreign language a couple of times, I’ve noticed several things. I often get stuck with frustrating grammar, and I often stop because I don’t have a clear end goal. I always think …
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Don’t you just love bizarre insults? Translating things from foreign languages can often lead to pretty bizarre translations. Whether it’s numbers or simple greetings, when translated you’ll quickly have half of the world’s population saying “What?” In fact, sometimes the things we say ourselves don’t make a whole lot of sense either, and only once …
Finnish has a reputation of being very hard. Maybe that reputation is deserved, but there are a couple of things that certainly don’t make Finnish as hard as people think it is. 1. No Articles Like many “complicated” languages like Japanese and Chinese, Finnish frees you from mind-numbing memorizations of gendered articles. Speaking of being …
When do you know you are fluent in a language? ¨You know you are actually good at speaking another language when you stop getting compliments¨ This is what a Russian woman once told me. She lived in our neighbourhood and I had never really talked to her and had honestly always assumed she was Dutch, …
We all know speaking multiple languages has it´s benefits. It makes traveling easier, it makes watching movies easier, it makes meeting people from other parts of the world easier. Coincidentally those three things are also my favorite hobbies, shortly followed by ‘learning languages´. However, making life easier and more interesting isn´t the only benefit ‘bilingualism’ …