Language Learning Advice From a Polyglot Veteran (Bilingual Interview with...
In this interview with passionate polyglot Judith Meyer, she shares how she learnt over 14 languages, how you can get over the intermediate plateau, and why learning any other language than English...
View Article6 Things I’ve Learned About Russian Since Moving To Russia (And Resources...
If you’d asked me six months ago whether I thought that I would know how to read the Cyrillic alphabet by December, I would have laughed and asked which planet you were from. Yet, here I am: Navigating...
View ArticleDoing Business in Finland
One of the most evenly diversified economies in Europe is found in Finland. They have a mix of services, manufacturing, natural resources, electronics, technology and other industries. Despite this...
View ArticleGilbane Advisor 1-16-18 — Open Web, Mobile Mesh, Machine Learning, AR
We’re back after our annual December break and looking forward to a year of consequential, if not yet tectonic, shifts in enterprise and consumer content strategies and applications. We’ll be closely...
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Can displaying the Taiwan flag get your website shut down in China?
The short answer: It depends. The context of how you display this flag can make all the difference; for example, do you display the flag on a global gateway with text that reads Select Country or...
View ArticleNew podcast: setting goals for your freelance business
In this new episode of Speaking of Translation, Eve and Corinne discuss how to set goals for your freelance business. If you enjoy this podcast, you might also enjoy Eve’s book Maintaining Your Second...
View ArticleWork-Chinese Balance
You hear a lot about the “work-life balance,” and what I want to discuss here is similar, but related to Chinese learning, of course. I’m drawing upon my own experience, as well as the experience of...
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French for Beginners: What You Need to Know
French was my first love when it comes to languages. In fact, there’s an expression in French: “On revient toujours a son premier amour." It means you always go back to your first love. I love French;...
View Article1/17/18 - mores
1. Customs, manners, traditional ways of doing things. 2. Moral attitudes or values.
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Time Management
Benjamin Franklin once wrote that “you may delay, but time will not.” Often, we are considering this in our own lives, but it also applies to business. In a 24-hour and global world, where business...
View Articleto run with short quick steps
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. In this series of language tips to accompany the Real Vocabulary theme we look at how you...
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to run with short quick steps
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. In this series of language tips to accompany the Real Vocabulary theme we look at how you...
View ArticleBuzzcocks – Love Bites (1978)
I remember the first time I heard The Buzzcocks. It was in 1995 or thereabouts and someone had made me a tape with them on it. Yes! A cassette tape. These little suckers are making a comeback these...
View ArticleRising Number of ESL Students Poses Challenges for U.S. Schools
The number of English-as-a-second-language speakers in public schools is on the rise, but recent research shows that the quality of education for those students in many K-12 schools is falling short.
View ArticleNews: Amazon Invests Rs 2,900 Crore in Amazon India
In late 2017, Amazon raised Rs 2,900 crore in funding for Amazon India. The funds came from Singapore-based group entity Amazon Corporate Holdings and Mauritius-based group entity Amazon.com.incs. The...
View ArticleNotes from Underground.
I must have read Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from Underground in college (in English), since bits of it seemed familiar as I was reading it in Russian, but I’d essentially forgotten it, and god knows...
View ArticleJLPT N5 Vocabulary – The Basics
Welcome to the N5 vocabulary course! We will be going over all of the basic vocabulary that is usually covered on the N5 as well as some other useful vocabulary that you will need to communicate in...
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2018: A Look Forward – Platforms, E-Discovery, NMT
Now that we can fully see 2017 in the rear-view mirror and can digest all of the changes we have encountered, it is time to brace ourselves for what the next 12 months may hold in store for the...
View Article1/18/18 - fulgent
1. Shining brightly, radiant, glittering. 2. Resplendent, glorious, spectacular, refulgent. 3. (Heraldry; postmodifier) Having rays, as 'a star refulgent with eight rays on a field of red'.
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imposter
Definition someone who pretends to be someone else, in order to trick people Origin and usage The word imposter, also spelled impostor, comes from the Late Latin word ‘impostor’ meaning ‘deceiver’. It...
View Articleimposter
Definition someone who pretends to be someone else, in order to trick people Origin and usage The word imposter, also spelled impostor, comes from the Late Latin word ‘impostor’ meaning ‘deceiver’. It...
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Magic Triangle or Triple Constraint
“You can’t have it all!” – But approach the ‘triple constraint’ like this and you can nail your translated content Finally, the account manager has prompted action from a prospect she has been...
View ArticleNumerical names: 605
You probably remember the story about the guy who’s sent to prison and, on his first night behind bars, is baffled when his cellmate shouts out “TWELVE!” and is greeted with raucous laughter. Another...
View ArticleChachapoyas.
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has put out a press release summarized in the subhead thus: “DNA analysis of present-day populations in the Chachapoyas region of Peru...
View Article2796 – La Chine investit au Brésil (China invests in Brazil)
Learning Guide | PDF Transcript La Chine a pour projet d’investir jusqu’à 50 milliards de dollars au Brésil sur des projets de… You can listen to the lesson via iTunes. Go to iTunes
View Article2797 – Les drones interdits dans les parcs (Drones in parks)
Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Tokyo a interdit les drones dans les parcs municipaux après que l’un d’eux ait été découvert … You can listen to the lesson via iTunes. Go to iTunes
View Article2798 – Real Life French : pas pour moi
Real life French Guide Welcome to your lesson of Real Life French. Each lesson we take a simple situation you may encounter in everyday life in France. You can listen to the lesson via iTunes. Go to...
View Article2799 – Lucian Freud (Lucian Freud)
Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Un nu grandeur nature de Lucian Freud a été vendu aux enchères à New York pour 56… You can listen to the lesson via iTunes. Go to iTunes
View Article2800 – Attaques (Strokes)
Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Il y a une augmentation inquiétante dans le nombre d’hommes et de femmes en âge… You can listen to the lesson via iTunes. Go to iTunes
View Article1/19/18 - trapeze
1. A gymnastic or acrobatic device consisting of a short parallel bar suspended between two ropes. 2. A sling at the end of a rope attached to the masthead of a sailboat.
View ArticleDoing Business in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom (UK) is an island nation located in Northwestern Europe. The country's official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it consists of England, Scotland,...
View Articlethe limelight
Definition a situation in which you are getting a lot of interest and attention from the newspapers, television, etc. Origin and usage The term the limelight has an unusual history. In the early 1800s,...
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the limelight
Definition a situation in which you are getting a lot of interest and attention from the newspapers, television, etc. Origin and usage The term the limelight has an unusual history. In the early 1800s,...
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Celebrating the thesaurus
Yesterday (January 18th) was National Thesaurus Day, marking the birth in 1779 of Peter Mark Roget, the author of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a collection of words classified by meaning...
View ArticleCelebrating the thesaurus
Yesterday (January 18th) was National Thesaurus Day, marking the birth in 1779 of Peter Mark Roget, the author of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a collection of words classified by meaning...
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tapestry
To mark a visit to the UK, the French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is willing to lend the Bayeux tapestry to the UK, the first time the precious artefact will have left home in...
View Articletapestry
To mark a visit to the UK, the French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is willing to lend the Bayeux tapestry to the UK, the first time the precious artefact will have left home in...
View ArticleWatch: A Parent's Campaign to Break Down Language Barriers for ELL Families
When Teresa Garcia's children started school, she often felt lost in translation. Her campaign for improved language services helped break down barriers for English-learner families.
View ArticleProtected: How to Watch and Download Real, Live Japanese TV: Goodbye MOJI,...
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View ArticleLinguistic Olfaction.
Josh Gabbatiss reports for The Independent on a study, “Hunter-Gatherer Olfaction Is Special” by Asifa Majid and Nicole Kruspe in Current Biology, in which (to quote the subhead) “Scientists use...
View ArticleFurther evidence of mixed script writing in Chinese
Michael Cannings relayed this tweet by Dave Flynn: When did replacing 很 with "hen" become a thing in Taiwan? pic.twitter.com/IHX8b5EWLZ — Dave Flynn 茶米 (@DaveFlynn) January 18, 2018 The writing in the...
View ArticleThe quasi-compositionality of English compounds
Today's Frazz: Snowpants exemplifies a common case, where both elements of the compound retain their basic meaning, but the combination has an idiomatic aspect — the meaning is not entirely...
View ArticleZhitkov and the Modernist Novel.
I’m finally reading Boris Zhitkov‘s Виктор Вавич (Viktor Vavich), and my thoughts on reading the opening paragraphs were as follows, in this order: “No wonder Pasternak liked it; this is a modernist...
View Article5 Hands-Free Ways to Study Languages While You Work Out
The struggle to balance your language learning time with everything else you do in a day can be a pain in The post 5 Hands-Free Ways to Study Languages While You Work Out appeared first on Languages...
View Article1/21/18 - frack
To fracture rock surrounding a well to increase the flow of oil or gas. This is accomplished by injecting large amounts of liquid under high pressure into cracks in the rock in order to split them open.
View ArticleUsing Chinese nonstandard characters to talk cute
Nikita Kuzmin told me about a trend among young Chinese to exchange certain characters with other phonetically close characters in their Internet writings, so that the words sound more "cute". Here are...
View ArticleDecreasing definiteness in crime novels
In a series of posts over the last few years, I've documented gradual declines in the frequency of the English definite determiner "the" in a wide variety of text sources: State of the Union addresses,...
View ArticleSophist.
Stephen Halliwell’s TLS review of Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire, edited by Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, and Elzbieta Szabat, starts with two paragraphs...
View ArticlePutin in Russian, Mandarin, and English
I'm at Yale University attending a workshop on Tangut. So you ask, "What is 'Tangut'?" Relevant Wikipedia articles: Tangut people, an ancient ethnic group in Northwest China, not Tibetan people....
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