A click away… 15 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm

These days, everything you always wanted to know is only a click away. Not long ago, when you needed to research a subject, you had to go to the library and spend hours looking for the right book or b...

Language of Economic Crisis 7 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm

The difficult economic times of the past years have spawned completely new terms throughout Europe that have been added to the official dictionaries of countries and will no doubt continue to be assoc...

Greetings from our Japanese Studio 26 Jul 2013 | 05:46 pm

Our studio team in Tokyo, Japan, posed for a greeting card and is sending everybody best wishes for a great summer.

Calling Dr. Doolittle! 19 Jul 2013 | 05:54 pm

It seems that we may not be to far off from being able to “talk to the animals”.  Professor Con Slobodchikoff from North Arizona University has been studying prairie dogs for the past 30 years and has...

T-shirt 12 Jul 2013 | 01:21 am

The English language uses letters to describe the shape of some clothes. A few examples are T-shirt, A-line dress or skirt and V-neck. The United States has created these terms and other countries wit...

Happy Forth of July 2 Jul 2013 | 11:44 pm

Gringonizing Spanish 21 Jun 2013 | 05:57 pm

With the immigration problem being debated as I write this, it is time to revisit the evolution of Spanish as spoken by many Hispanics in the U.S.A. A good example is this picture of a great Spanish t...

Shakespeare For All 14 Jun 2013 | 05:46 pm

One of the most difficult challenges involved in the studying of Shakespeare is breaking the language barrier. There are several factors that often confuse the reader about the language of Shakespeare...

Learning Languages 7 Jun 2013 | 12:52 am

Having grown up bilingual and being fluent in two additional languages, I had never thought about the benefits of speaking several languages, as everyone had that skill where I grew up. Later in life,...

The Nature of a Reviewer 31 May 2013 | 08:49 pm

The Scorpion and the Frog A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won’t sting me?" The scor...