Japanese is a fascinating and rich language with a long history. It’s also a language full of cute words and expressions to describe just the right feeling. Today we’ve got …
Can you change your accent? Let’s face it, whatever language you are learning and whatever people say about the importance of accents, we all want to sound like a native …
A grande questão para a maioria das pessoas começando a aprender francês geralmente é, “Quanto tempo demora para aprender francês?”
Eu fui sortudo o bastante para ter nascido em uma parte do Canadá que é conhecida como uma comunidade bilíngue. Praticamente qualquer lugar que você visite por aqui, encontrará pessoas que falam tanto inglês quanto francês, ou uma combinação dos dois, conhecida como “franglês”.
I was 17 and I was like, man, it’d be really cool to be, do this YouTube thing. You know? So Nate’s Adventures was born. And at first my channel was just me going around, doing fun stuff, going camping, and going rock climbing. And then one day, this was maybe just over a year ago, I was like, you know, let’s speak Spanish. You know, I feel like making videos about it would be a good way to practice. And I thought to myself, you know, I want to share the language with people and I want to share with people just how cool it is to know another language, whether that’s Spanish or another language.
So in Korean, there’s kind of a funny, like slang term that people use to talk about uh, foreigners who are really good at speaking Korean. So when you install the language pack for a piece of software or a video game or something, they usually call that the… which means Korean patch, or they’ll call it the … or something like that.
“Pop surrealism is basically a faction of the low brow art movement, which developed in the seventies. It was this movement of artists who were doing darker stuff, but more cartoony, you know. It had branched off from what the traditional art was, you know, like realism and pointillism and abstract. They were taking essentially cartoons and elevating it.”
When it comes to the world of fashion, every country has its own stereotypes. Russian women in particular have garnered quite a reputation as fashion-minded and elegantly dressed. This stereotype …
Lina Vasquez is a polyglot YouTuber, author and self-empowerment coach. LingQ Podcast host Elle chatted with Lina about how she came to know so many languages, what inspired her to start her website and YouTube channel and the interesting and exciting new direction her channel and career have taken recently.
When it comes to learning written Chinese characters, context is everything! Other than the fact that some words such as 面 (miàn) have multiple dictionary definitions, because Chinese is a …
It’s a good topic because I think some people like to shy away from controversial subjects, but a lot of people have different opinions on it. So to that extent, maybe a lot of people will find this conversation interesting. And if something is interesting, then you’re more likely to listen and it’s good for your language learning because you’re engaged.
