Learning New Languages

Why should I learn English? While you are thinking where to study English and which course to take, you might also want to ask yourself: why should I learn English? There are lots of good reasons to learn English, from the professional to the personal. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and more than 67 countries have English as their official or native language, more than any other language in the world. Professional Learning English can really help you in your career and enhance your CV Research suggests that on average, people who use languages in their jobs earn around 8% more Over 1/3 of businesses want people specifically for their language skills The international business community often uses English to communicate, and often requires employees to speak multiple languages  Com...

 Save Time By Knowing The Differences Between Spanish And English Here's another time-saving tip. -- You already know the English language inside and out, and you can save time by leveraging your knowledge of English and becoming aware of the many ways Spanish is different from English. There are many, many ways Spanish is different from English. Below is a sampling of 5 main differences with some links to other resources if you want more information. 1 - Nouns Have Gender - Masculine And Feminine English doesn't have a concept of noun gender but Spanish is one of the languages that do. Just as there are male and female people there are actually male and female nouns in Spanish. Spanish nouns usually have a different ending letter to show male or female - most often o for masculine nouns and a for feminine nouns. Here's an article on nouns that goes into more detail about Masculine and Feminine Spanish Nouns     2 - Special Sp...

It’s very easy to assume that, in a country one doesn’t know much about, only one or two languages are spoken. This may be the case in some extremely small countries, but Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of land area. There are also 160 different ethnic groups in Russia, and about 100 languages spoken by these groups. The linguistic diversity found in Russia is just as astounding as the ethnic diversity, even though it is a country that belongs to two different continents.  Here are just a handful of the languages native to Russia that are spoken by its inhabitants, besides Russian:   1. Tatar The language of the Volga Tatar ethnic group, Tatar is spoken by some 6.5 million people as a native language. Besides Russia, where it is a native language, it can be found in Ukraine, Finland, China, Romania, Turkey, and other countries. Tatar is a Turkic language, which means it shares characteristics like vowel harmony, agglutination,...

Do you want to know more about the Spanish language? Here are 10 facts to get you started: 1- Spanish Ranks as World's No. 2 Language   With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world's No. 2 language in terms of how many people speak it as their first language, according to Ethnologue. It is slightly ahead of English (328 million) but far behind Chinese (1.2 billion).       Spanish is Spoken Around the World Spanish has at least 3 million native speakers in each of 44 countries, making it the fourth most widely spoken language behind English (112 countries), French (60) and Arabic (57). Spanish Is in the Same Language Family as English Spanish is part of the Indo-European family of languages, which are spoken by more than a third of the world's population. Other Indo-European languages include English, Fre...

American culture encompasses the customs and traditions of the United States. "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things," said Cristina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London. The United States is the third largest country in the word with a population of more than 325 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A child is born every 8 seconds, and a person dies every 12 seconds. In addition to Native Americans who were already living on the continent, the population of the United States was built on immigration from other countries. Despite recent moves to close the U.S. borders to new immigrants and refugees, a new immigrant moves to the United States every 33 seconds, ac...