Chill out! It’s Friday! What about taking a break with our nice links of the week?

Or how to survive in a country whose language you don’t speak…

Le titre de cet article en dit long : en effet, cette phrase est sans conteste devenue ma phrase « incontournable » depuis mon arrivée en Allemagne. Certains d’entre vous ont peut-être lu un de mes articles précédents sur l’enthousiasme manifesté par les français vis-à-vis de la langue allemande. L’allemand étant considéré comme un dialecte [...]

No language can escape the fate of foreign influence. Languages evolve over time; new words enter the dictionary and new expressions enter the everyday language, a lot of them coming from other languages. In addition, with the global dominance of English it is just impossible to avoid using English words in domains such as IT [...]

What a relief, the weekend is finally here! Time to take a break thanks to our weekly selection of interesting links.

As the summer approaches, the same problem keeps popping in everyone’s heads: “what to do during the holidays?” is a common question. Well, since the world is quite vast, it looks like you have a lot of options and many different places to choose to spend your free time. You can travel to faraway places, [...]

Have you ever felt completely lost when in a foreign country whose culture and language are not very familiar to you? You don’t know how to act towards the natives or at a dinner party, or even worse you have no notions of the language whatsoever? Well, this is why our Lexiophiles writers have developed [...]

It is obvious that when learning a foreign language the best way to improve your skills is to visit a country where this language is spoken, not only to extend your knowledge of the language, but also to get in touch with the culture and lifestyle. Learning a language is not just about words and [...]

Language learning is definitely a tricky process. You may have studied a foreign language for many years but you just cannot get rid of those tiny mistakes that remind you (and all the others) that no, you still don’t sound (or write) like a native. Sadly for language learners, one tiny mistake can often change [...]

« En France personne ne sait parler anglais » ou « Vous les Français vous êtes nuls en langues » sont deux affirmations qu’il m’a été donné d’entendre bien trop souvent. C’est une image dont nous les Français ne parvenons pas à nous débarrasser : en France nous parlons français, et nous ne faisons pas [...]