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Verbs to learn a language fast
If you want to speak a language fast I would say the best way to learn is to learn verbs. Verbs are the heart and soul of a language. Many programs in language learning teach things like animals and vegetables first because they are concrete and easy […]

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Do dolphins speak the language of creatures living on Jupiter?
Scientists study the language of animals not just to learn more about the animals and their behavior, but also to learn about the human brain and how it’s connected to language. Yet on another level it’s to understand communication in general. Dolphin language has been both hyped […]

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Crimea
Crimea was inhabited by Proto-Indo Europeans, Cimmerians, Greeks, Scythians, Iranians, Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Khazars, Kievan Rus (Ukrainians), Byzantine Greeks, Kipchaks, Mongols, Tartars, Ottomans, Germans, Russians and now Ukrainians again.
The area of Crimea or Krym in Ukrainian is now mostly inhabited by Russian and Ukrainians with a Tartar minority.  Although Ukrainian is the official language of […]

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Learn Polish in Krakow Poland
Do you want to learn Polish in Krakow Poland? Here is my 2 cents. I teach English and study Polish in Krakow, Poland. Krakow is a Mecca for language learning. I would estimate there are 100 language schools in Krakow. Further there are about 120,000 students who are […]

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The end of Harry Potter

I teach languages and many people ask me what are the best books to read when learning a foreign language. Should they be books specifically to build and teach something? Should they be classics, that we should all read? Should they be something a friend has recommended? No and no. […]

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Polish word for ‘yes’ is ‘no’
One of the most confusing words for me in Polish is the shortest.  The Polish word for ‘Yes’ is ‘tak’.  The Polish word for ‘no’ is ‘nie’.  Ok that is easy.  However, more common than ‘yes’ or ‘tak’ ,I hear, the word ‘Yeah’, which in Polish is pronounced or said […]

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I think the best school for learning Ukrainian is UCU.  The main reason is the people who teach at the University. The instructors have a great deal of experience in getting foreigners to speak Ukrainian. However, the most important quality which makes them stand out from the rest is they are altruists. They are connected […]

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English as the official language for the Untied States of America
 
 
I am American.  I was born in United States.  I learnt no other language than English, until I learnt French in school.  My parents spoke Polish and Ukrainian, but in the 1960s when I grew up, the conventional wisdom  in the United States was to be […]

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Students are studying less traditional European languages and more exotic languages What languages are hot now?  Chinese and Arabic.  These languages are growing in popularity. French and Latin not as much. The reasons are obvious, Chinese and Arabic is a manifestation of the geo-economic-political-demographics shifts. Also its fun to be different. If everyone around you […]

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“In 1922, Ludwig Wittgenstein noted that “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” How relevant these words are today. The most obvious need for increased language proficiency stems from our inability to understand and communicate adequately with others with whom we have shared interests; and in a world of accelerating and […]

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