the hardest languages to learn how to write correctly, the hardest languages to learn to speak correctly and the hardest languages to learn overall. The much anticipated results are as follows…

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Here they come – long, cold, dark evenings. I love to fill them with music that has this wonderful power to make everything more colourful!

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Sometimes we forget how important context is when reading or writing a text. A phrase taken out of context can result in great confusion.

A veces olvidamos lo importante que es el contexto cuando estamos leyendo o escribiendo un texto. Una frase tomada fuera de contexto puede provocar mucha confusión. Así, frases o palabras que se usan en algún país de Latinoamérica en un contexto, en otro país pueden ser un insulto. Por ejemplo, en España coger es un [...]

Several interesting popular expressions in Brazil have animals as their theme. They can be tricky for those who are learning the Portuguese language, as they make no sense at all when literally translated.

Diversas expressões interessantes e popularmente utilizadas no Brasil trazem animais como mote. Elas podem ser um pouco complicadas para quem está aprendendo a língua portuguesa, pois não fazem sentido algum quando literalmente traduzidas. Na verdade, algumas não fazem sentido até mesmo em português! Abaixo estão algumas destas frases populares com a explicação do seu sentido [...]

There are some controversial questions which to some extent may never be satisfactorily answered. For instance, why is the train always late when we are on time and on time when we arrive too late? One important question, which falls under this category, is the following: What is the hardest language to learn?…