In Europe, there are many businesses dealing with language learning. Of course, most famous are Cambridge and Oxford University Press and their publications, Pons and Langenscheidt, Berlitz and many others. Rosetta Stone is known mainly by people who do not want to learn one of the major languages in Europe (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]1. German – Germany, Austria, Switzerland among others 2. (Northern) Sami – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia 3. Romansh – Switzerland 4. Irish (Gaelic) – Ireland. Not to be confused with English as spoken in Ireland 5. Norwegian – Norway 6. French – France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Congo among others 7. Afrikaans – South Africa…
20 languages to listen to! Tomorrow we give you the list!
Not sure this is the best way … !
We talked about culture shock, here other examples:
He was a very nice guy, but the worst teacher I’ve ever had. He had a lot to say, but was totally incapable of teaching us. His major motivation was to teach us his religion and not his language. But that’s not why we were in his classroom. Even worse, he got angry with people…
The phenomenon of culture shock is seldom dealt with directly. In scientific literature, it is relegated to intercultural studies. In popular scientific literature, there are experts such as Chen (see below) who always have difficulty describing a culture without sounding cliché. The risk of doing so is normal and cannot be avoided. However, those who…
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„A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.“ William Arthur Ward If nothing works, smile! Normally that helps. This morning I asked a guy to clean my shoes on a square around the corner. He smiles at me, pointed to my shoes, made hand gestures to show that I had to put the other…
It’s now been over a year since I started learning Tunisian Arabic. A year with many interruptions and various difficulties, but a good year, all in all! A breakthrough has not happened yet: everything is slow. That being said, I can’t work more than 10 hours a week on language learning because I just don’t…