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Argumentative Essay – How to Write One and Topic Ideas

Some school lessons give students a sneaking suspicion that they're being forced to learn something they won't need in real life - long division, memorizing the periodic table, writing in cursive, etc. Learning how to write an argumentative essay, however, will pay dividends down the road. Strictly speaking, an argumentative essay is "a piece of writing that uses logical [...]

2023-05-04T20:38:57-04:00May 3rd, 2023|Communication, Education, Writing|

Bringing Your Pet to the US? Documents Required and Things to Consider

Pet Travel Basics Many of us can't imagine going somewhere without our faithful pet companion, and over 1.9 million pets, from hound dogs to hedgehogs, enter the US each year. Like anything related to international travel, however, getting your pet to join your journey can be a hectic, costly, and emotionally draining process. This is an area where red [...]

2023-04-26T19:28:29-04:00April 26th, 2023|Travel|

Grammar-Translation Method – Language Teaching Methodologies and Strategies

Most language learning systems address four basic skills – reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The grammar-translation method focuses solely on the first two, largely ignoring listening and speaking. This method has been around since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, then experienced a bit of a resurgence in the early 1900s. Since then, it has fallen out of [...]

2023-04-19T17:05:40-04:00April 19th, 2023|Communication, Education|

The Anatomy of a Joke: How to Write and Translate a Joke

A joke really only has two parts – the set-up (I'm on the new whiskey diet…) and the punchline (I've lost three days already). The punchline is of course the funny bit and comes at the end, though for a longer joke, smaller humorous parts, known as jab lines, can be sprinkled in. If you've ever heard an unfunny [...]

Language Planning

Language is one of our world’s most powerful tools, and throughout history, governments and large organizations have used different forms of language planning as a way to control that power. In a broad sense, language planning is an organized effort by a major entity to change a society’s language. These efforts can be, and usually are, done for the [...]

2023-03-23T11:14:14-04:00March 23rd, 2023|Communication, Culture, History|

Language Teaching Methodologies and Strategies

As students, many of us took part in some type of foreign language instruction at school, and depending on your age and country, this could have ranged from incomprehensible teacher lectures to singing songs, to intense grammar drilling. In the world of education, second language acquisition philosophies and practices change at a rapid clip, and the new breakthrough methodology [...]

2023-03-15T17:21:16-04:00March 15th, 2023|Communication, Education, Languages|

How Long Does It Take for a Child to Become Literate in Other Languages

From the moment we learn to control our mouths, lungs, and vocal cords as infants, we yearn to speak. As babies, we babble and attempt to copy words, and with no formal instruction at all, we can typically grasp the basics of speaking in under a year and begin to communicate. Neurolinguists have shown that our brain’s superior temporal [...]

How to Type in Chinese on a QWERTY Keyboard

One of modern civilization’s most commonly used tools sits just beneath our fingertips, as our keyboards provide us with an arsenal of approximately 80 numbers, letters, and commands, all ready to do our bidding. For those of us who utilize the Roman alphabet (approximately 70% of all major languages), we press these keys in various combinations and assemble the [...]

2023-03-21T11:42:55-04:00March 1st, 2023|Asia, Chinese, Education, Mandarin, Technology|

Top Ten U.S. Universities for a Foreign Language Degree

Learning a foreign language has well-known social and even cognitive benefits, but people often underestimate the professional value of multilingualism. For starters, bilingualism equates to an average of 10-15% higher pay in the US job market. Specialized careers pay even more, but require a high level of language proficiency and possibly a foreign language degree for entry. Types of [...]

2023-02-23T12:29:01-05:00February 23rd, 2023|Education, French, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish|