Have you ever considered moving abroad to learn Chinese in China? China is an incredible country with more linguistic diversity than you can shake a stick at, and the rewards to be gained by those who take the time to study it – be it Mandarin, Hakka, Cantonese or any other of the innumerable languages…
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The Internet is full of software, apps and websites that readily offer all kinds of translations fast and free; we call them machine translators, or for simplicity’s sake: MT. They are the very definition of convenience and more and more individuals and businesses are taking to them like moths to flame. The question, though, is in regards…
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Nobody is perfect… Especially not me. If I followed my own language learning advice 100% of the time I’d be a lot further along on my own language projects. Alas, I have fallen into the same traps and pitfalls and experienced the same failures as everyone else – and I still frequently do! This isn’t going to…
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I’ve recently taken on a brand new project that I’d like to share with fans of LATG. It’s a little bit different from what I’ve been doing here on Languages Around the Globe for the past few years, but I thought it was time to branch out just a little bit. This year I’ve started…
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For most of us, learning a language from scratch isn’t always a walk in the park. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. It can be confusing, tiring, demoralizing and often intimidating when it comes to building up the resolve to begin, or when it comes to finally speaking to a…
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Expletives: something most of us use more often than we realize – or probably should. Those things we have to remind ourselves to avoid when the grandparents are over for the holidays. We try to keep them out of schools, away from kids, we consider them to be disrespectful but despite all of our efforts…
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