Finally my first post after a long break! And, after long investigations, I picked up 10 most useful idioms in German. And I promise you´ll meet them in everyday´s situations, media etc. Without further ado, let´s start! Tote Hose Literally: “Dead trousers”. It means something boring or describes a place or an event where nothing´s …
You may feel relieved or disappointed if I tell you that this post isn´t about Duolingo. Being one of the 35 languages available there, alongside with Hawaiian and Swahili, Swedish isn´t THAT exotic. Thus I tested three alternative resources (all available for desktop and mobile) which put more love and exclusiveness into Swedish. Let´s go! …
Watching movies and shows as a way of learning new languages isn´t a big novelty anymore. Netflix, however, managed to bring a breath of fresh air into this. The spread of top-rated European series opened new opportunities to learn German, Spanish, French etc. This fact encouraged me to browse Quora and check how the people …
Before my first business trip to Barcelona, I thought I was able to speak Spanish more or less. But then the first dinner came. Just a glance at the restaurant menu forced me to switch to the English translation – and I was quite ashamed of that. And then those endless conversations about food and …
Learning foreign languages using flashcards is one of the oldest methods of memorising vocabulary. However, there is no consensus on whether the flashcard method is the most effective method of learning a new language. Cramming a large number of words, often without any context, may appear boring and even fatiguing. And if you think there …
There is barely a language within Europe which has no borrowed vocabulary. In many cases, the borrowed words come from completely different cultural environments interacting with the European continent throughout history. Some of the influences were peaceful and entered Europe via trade routes. Other ones came with the conquerors and brought devastations first rather than …
To be honest, I barely know student books of foreign languages teaching how to order a meal in real situations. And I mean very real, everyday situations. I am entitled to state it after years of ordering kebab (Döner) in Germany. A typical conversation between kebab sellers and their clients is like breaking all possible …
You are learning Swedish and want to start reading quickly and painlessly? It seems that there is a solution. In my first-ever overview of a language-learning website, I´d like to present a source which helps you to immerse into Swedish content from an A2 level. It calls 8 Sidor (“8 pages”) and is basically a …
The IT Crowd is one of my best-loved sitcoms ever, and I admit I binge-watch it repeatedly. The story is about two nerdy IT–experts, Roy and Moss, working in a basement of a fictional London company Reynholm Industries. Another main protagonist is Jen, working with Roy and Moss as the Head of IT. All of …
In the first part of this grammar topic, I introduced to you what SER and ESTAR in Spanish are and roughly outlined the key features of those verbs. But the deeper you´ll dig the more you´ll have to comprehend to take on this challenge confidently. The hardest obstacle is a bunch of adjectives and participles …