Linguists are the really smart people that study human language, and many of them believe that the 3000 most common words in a language make up 90% of the content we experience on a daily basis. Moreover, once we understand those 3000 most common words, we can understand the general context of whatever we might […]
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Spanish Lite
I’d like to share with you a series of Spanish language shows that I recently stumbled upon. Extr@ was an educational TV series that ran from 2002 to 2004 in four language versions: English, French, German and Spanish. Unfortunately, only 13 episodes of the Spanish language version were produced, and links to all 13 episodes […]
Hear and Speak Spanish
Did you know that MOST of the languages that ever existed were never written down? As a result, it is clear that language is by nature a means of communication that is spoken, heard, and felt. Writing systems that include letters, marks, and symbols which transcribe human communication are a relatively recent development in the […]
Diversity and the Benefits of Bilingualism
Interesting Stats: There are over 360 different languages spoken in the United States … and of the languages spoken at home, 80% of our country speaks English at home, 12.5% speaks Spanish at home, 1% speaks Chinese at home, half a percent speaks Tagalog (from the Philippines) at home, and the remaining 6% our country […]
Think it is hard to learn a new language?
If you think it is hard to learn a new language, just be glad you didn’t have to learn English as a second language. Check out this article, 10 Reasons Why English is a Hard Language