After moving to Germany as first a high school scholarship recipient and then later a post-college graduate Fulbright scholar, I spent a lot of time traveling around Europe. One thing I always...
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According to the latest US Census, over 63 million US citizens speak a language other than English at home regularly and 45 percent of them were born in the US. It's becoming more common for native...
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,...
