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In Japanese Kanji Learning: Short-Cuts to Rapid Mastery Part 1, we looked at mnemonic methods devised by James Heisig and Kenneth Henshall to speed-up kanji... Read More English is an international language. It has so many grammar rules and each rule with many exceptions. Usually, we write English without paying much attention... Read More Many people get confused as to the difference between an interpreter and a translator. There is a common tendency to think translators interpreter, or that... Read More The Chinese Language and dialectsEach province, each city and even each village speaks their own dialect. There are hundreds of Chinese dialects in China so... Read More There is a lot of talk about making English the official language of the USA. That would stop the need to spend so much money... Read More I watched the British version of 'Big Brother' recently. That's the television show which is a human hamster cage. Viewers go 'ooh' and 'aah' over... Read More There are more than 39 million Hispanics live in the United States making it the fifth largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world. It is estimated... Read MoreJapanese Kanji Learning: Short-Cuts to Rapid Mastery (Part 2)
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The Chinese Language and dialectsEach province, each city and even each village speaks their own dialect. There are hundreds of Chinese dialects in China so... Read More
Second language learning has associated with it many types of benefits. Among them include: social, economic, intellectual and linguistic. Children who engage in second language... Read More
There are more than 39 million Hispanics live in the United States making it the fifth largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world. It is estimated... Read More
Why an EarlyAGE 2nd Language?Research indicates that from ages 1 through 8 is the best time to introduce a new language to a child. If... Read More
So, you have always been fascinated by Asian culture have you? Maybe you are someone who loves the martial arts; kung fu, tae-kwon-do, or karate.... Read More
Imagine the following scenario: You wake up one morning and instead of speaking English, everyone around you--including your family and friends--is speaking Hungarian. This is... Read More
Imagine a child sitting in front of a desk, his head in his hands, and mumbling various lists of words over and over. Does this... Read More
Our "mind power" is largely in the way we use our words, and limited by our vocabulary. Words, and the concepts they express, are different... Read More
Because IELTS is a difficult test. While most agree that IELTS is a reasonable test, it is generally regarded as one of the most challenging... Read More
I realize that we here in the United States consider ourselves at the top rung of the educational ladder, if only for the fact that... Read More
I would like to talk about one of my many obsessions: learning Spanish. I have been thinking about this lately mostly because I am under... Read More
My dad likes to say, he was made in Italy, but born in Brooklyn New York. You see his parents left Palermo, Sicily in February... Read More
What's in a word? Apparently more than we might want.For others, the ability to express yourself in the most meaningful way.I have written articles before... Read More
Sad, but true. Just about everywhere you look online, the English language is suffering a fate worse than death. The problem, in reality, is so... Read More