Want to know the secret to making your attempt at learning a new language more successful? Want to find out what will keep you motivated and learn much faster? Well, that secret is…confidence. “Confidence comes from not always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.” -Peter T. Mcintyre Yes, that secret might not...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an idiom is: “A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.” The main difference between a fluent speaker and someone who is learning a language is obvious: the fluent speaker knows how to use idioms. Every language has a...
Don’t let these mistakes get in the way when you learn a new language, learn to avoid or overcome them and you are guaranteed to succeed! Here are the biggest mistakes to avoid when learning a language. Fear of making a mistake You might enjoy writing and reading in a different language, but when it...
There are few places on this Earth as beautiful as Cape Town is. Amazing weather, amazing beaches, and an exquisite mountain hugging the ocean, what more could you want? And there’s more – while most countries have only one or perhaps two languages, Cape Town is home to a number of different languages, and...
Would you rather choose to learn French, Spanish or Portuguese? Okay, so the Romance languages belong to the Indo-European language family group. They have their origin in Vulgar Latin and are called Romance languages because they were spoken by Romans. Below is a list of the five Romance Languages: Spanish Portuguese French Italian Romanian Even...
