Introduction to the Russian Alphabet as a System of Handwriting: Capitalization, Punctuation, Syllabification and Stress

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Russian alphabet that is currently used was officially established under Peter the Great. It originated from the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, also known as “Cyrillic”. This alphabet was redesigned in Bulgaria, after the...

Brief History and Analysis of Kana

Reading Time: 2 minutesORIGIN POINT It is said that the word “kana” is a derivative of the word “karina”, which is defined as “a name that has been borrowed”. Kana symbols find their origin point in certain variations of particular...

Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation Guide: Vowels, Consonants and Diphthongs

Reading Time: 3 minutesVowels: A – When ‘a’ is stressed, then the pronounciation we get would be similar to the ‘a’ in father, but a shorter ‘a’ in father. For example, the word “fado” is pronounced...

Basic Spanish Using Different Situations – Donald and Consuela – Act 1

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the gym: Donald – One, two, three, four, five, six! Boy, am I out of shape.. Consuela – Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis!Donald – Hi, I’m Donald.Consuela – Hola.Donald – Oh. You speak...

The History and Importance of the Devanagari Script

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is said that Devanagari means “script of the city of the gods”, although the actual true meaning of “Devanagari” is unknown and therefore this meaning is just speculative. Devanagari is the written script used by...

Pronunciation Guide for French

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn order to make this French learning experience easy, we will use simple visual aids, such as the pronunciation being labeled together with their appropriate symbols in italics. These symbols are not part of the International Phonetic...

Introduction to Chinese Characters

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the most common questions asked by beginning learners of Chinese is that of how many characters should the learner know in order to gain some sort of basic understanding and conversational ability of Chinese. As the language contains over...

1. Arabic Script: An Introduction

Reading Time: 6 minutesREADING AND WRITING ARABIC While Arabic writing may initially seem like an intimidating task to master, it really isn’t if you put your mind to it. The following will be an attempt to simplify the process and make it the down to Earth task...

German Dialogue Basics 1

Reading Time: 3 minutesDialogue 1: Ursula: Guten Tag!Ilse: Tag, Ursula!Ursula: Wie geht’s?Ilse: Gut, danke. Translation: Ursula: Good Day! Ilse: Hello, Ursula! Ursula: How are you? Ilse: Good, thanks. Dialogue 2: Dieter: Guten Abend, Otto!Otto: Guten Abend,...

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