Motivation in language learning or habits?
Motivation in language learning isn’t what people say it is. Motivation as a general rule in fact is a great inner strength that everybody gets endowed with at birth BUT its number one feature is that...
View ArticleLanguage sciences: are they for real or are they fake?
Around four billion six hundred million years ago, gravitation and a cloud of gas gave birth to the Sun. A few million years later, Earth came to be too. We know that. Scientists have studied the...
View ArticleFictional languages: especially created for a movie or novel
Fictional languages are languages created from scratch for the sole purpose of being integrated into a book or a movie. The fact that some authors go to the length of creating whole new languages says...
View ArticleLanguages of the world: thousands of treasures to explore
More than six billion nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine other people than you live on Earth. Most of them are multilingual; they speak more than one language, but...
View ArticleBoustrophedon writing: an ancient, backwards way
Boustrophedon writing is a technique that consists in not starting every line over from the same side: the hand goes from left to right, then very logically from right to left on the next line, then...
View ArticleThe hardest language to learn depends a lot on who is learning
In French, you say C’est du chinois (litterally, ‘It’s Chinese’) when you want to express how much what you’ve heard or read is just so unintelligible. A few hundreds years ago, French people were...
View ArticleLanguage families: deep roots into our past
I firmly believe that at the beginning were several Babel towers. I trust our human ancestors for having invented language from scratch several times around in different places of the globe at about...
View ArticleHistory of languages: from Argh to Zillions of languages
Many thousands of years ago, on a bright Wednesday afternoon, we, little humans, have started uttering mumbles, grunts and groans. Meaningful ones, I mean. It was so long ago though that no oral...
View ArticleHow I Find My Ideal Online Language Teachers
Some of you may have read my previous blog post I wrote after having 1000 lessons on Italki. After spending so much of my time learning languages online (on skype usually), I am now well aware of what...
View ArticleHow can I learn English at home
Learning English, one of the most widely spoken languages globally, opens doors to communication, education, and career opportunities. While traditional classroom settings are effective, many...
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