Top 10 Hardest Languages in the World
Very interesting and provoking video: Over 2000 comments!
When the mother tongue is not Mother’s tongue
There are several people on the web to whom a phrase like this is attributed: „You can speak 20 languages – but if you cut yourself you speak your mother tongue!“ Of course, that’s true. The mother tongue is the main language of a person, his or her language of the heart. This will not…
Rosetta Stone again – my personal experience
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)…
Guess the languages – the answers
[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…
Guess the languages
20 languages to listen to! Tomorrow we give you the list!
Learning the alphabet
Not sure this is the best way … !
10 Surprising ways to offend people in other countries
We talked about culture shock, here other examples:
5 Ways to survive your most boring language teacher
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…
Where do I find more? – Literature on Culture Shock 9
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…
Switching from one language to another
Impressive !