Monthly Archives: July 2014

SEVEN REASONS WHY SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE IS GOOD FOR YOU

It’S one of life’s truths: Being bilingual or multilingual can only be considered a good thing. The ability to travel seamlessly in another country; to interact with people you wouldn’t otherwise be able to communicate with; to really understand and immerse yourself in another culture, whether it be your own or another’s; and on the

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20 AWESOME UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

HERE ARE A FEW instances where other languages have found the right word and English simply falls speechless. 1. Toska Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any

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