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Try learning ‘difficult’ languages

October 5, 2018

I bet you’ve encountered articles and funny pictures on social media concerning  ‘difficult’ languages which appear impossible to learn. Languages with no prepositions (e.g. Finnish, Estonian) are often considered difficult. Tonal languages, languages in which stress and pitch change the meaning of a word (e.g. Chinese, Japanese), languages with many strict rules (e.g. German) or languages with a completely different alphabet (e.g. Russian) are also regarded as being difficult. But the truth is that no language is too difficult to…

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Forget the excuses: You can learn too!

September 28, 2018

’I’m too old.’ ’I would like to learn German but it’s too difficult.’ ’I’ve never been good at languages and I never will be.’ These are probably the most common excuses people make for why they can’t learn foreign languages. Age is an advantage – no matter how old you are People often think that you can only learn languages when you’re young and that age is just a burden. However, this isn’t exactly true, because the experience brought by…

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