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Even though the US lags behind the rest of the world according to Pew Research in learning a foreign language, there are still plenty of Americans who take up another language. A common motivation...

German is widely agreed to be a difficult and complex language from the native English speaker’s perspective. In fact, the great American author Mark Twain was so frustrated by his study of the...

Although German and English share a common origin, and therefore also an extensive vocabulary, some sounds, etc.; the differences are still very apparent. These discrepancies include words that...

With so many different languages throughout the world, they end up developing unique features due to their region and culture. A language like Arabic, that is very foreign to English in both aspects,...

A phonetic language is one where a particular word's pronunciation can be known by its own spelling. Languages can be more or less phonetic in this way, and some can even be entirely non-phonetic....

All languages are unique and have interesting quirks, but some tend to stand out more than others. One such language is Chinese, a popular and ancient language. There are many things that set Chinese...