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Why Children Aren’t Better Language Learners than Adults

Everybody’s favorite stereotypical excuse to not learning a foreign language is that adults can’t learn languages as well as children. The common misconception is that children’s brains are more elastic

February 9, 2015

A Different Way of Communicating

In today’s day and age, where social media and smart phones are about as commonplace as ever before, it’s hard to imagine a way of communicating that doesn’t involve instant

February 3, 2015

The Advantages of Speaking Several Langauges

During our modern times, almost all professionals are encouraged (or required) to master more than one language fluently. In primary and secondary school as well as university, students have to

February 2, 2015

The Subtle Gap Between Being Bilingual and Being a Translator

Have you ever been asked to translate a short text or to edit a translation simply because you know how to speak or are a native speaker of that given

January 28, 2015

Europe’s Contribution to the Future of English

In my last post “Translating…The Future” I wrote about one possible aspect of the future of the English language; the probability that it will become more and more simple over

January 27, 2015

And the 2014 Spanish Word of the Year Is… “selfi”!

For the second year straight, the Fundación del Español Urgente (“Foundation of Urgent Spanish” – Fundéu BBVA) chose its Word of the Year, which, as indicated by the Foundation, represents the

January 26, 2015

¡Órale! Get Your Spanish Act Together!

Being fluent in Spanish has its benefits, some of them more obvious than others. From the fact that the language is being spoken by more and more people every day

January 24, 2015

We Don’t All Cry in the Same Language

A funny screenshot of a television series is passing around several websites, whose title reads “Woman Crying in Spanish” as an explanation of what is happening on screen. Of course,

January 21, 2015

The advantages of speaking multiple languages

In today’s day and age, almost all professionals are encouraged (if not required) to be fluent in more than one language. In grade school, high school and college, students must

January 13, 2015

Translating… The Future?

A little over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer, whom is widely considered to be the father of English literature, asked why anyone would possibly want to learn English, a language

January 12, 2015

Exploring Idioms in Foreign Languages

In my previous post “Understanding English-Language Idioms,” I discussed the peculiarity of idioms. Idioms are expressions used in informal language that don’t actually mean what their literal meaning would suggest,

December 29, 2014

Some Writers Who Never Won A Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been granted to great writers across the globe, but even today the Swedish Academy has been criticized for having excluded various authors that have

December 24, 2014

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