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All Saints’ Day in Spain: Tradition, Family, and a Quiet Contrast to Halloween
In Spain, 1st November means more than Halloween. Families honour loved ones with flowers, chestnuts, sweet potatoes and panellets. All Saints’ Day remains a quiet, meaningful tradition.
What Companies Look For (But Rarely Find) in a Language Teacher.
Looking for a language teacher for your company?
Most businesses focus on the usual checklist: experience, certificates, fluency… even whether the teacher is a native speaker.
But what truly drives effective language learning in the workplace often goes unnoticed.
In this post, I reveal the key qualities that really make a difference—and why your company might be investing in training that doesn’t deliver real results. Spoiler: it’s not all about the accent.
Revolutionizing Language: The AI Frontier
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing language learning, but can it truly replace human teachers? In this article, we explore how AI is reshaping language education, its advantages, limitations, and the irreplaceable role of human instructors. Are we witnessing the end of language teachers, or is this the dawn of a new collaboration between humans and technology? Find out here.
Languages Open Up An Entirely New World
"To have another language is to possess a second soul." ‒ Charlemagne When we think about languages in general we can often get fixated on the words and grammar that different languages use. However, a language is something much more than something that just...
Spanish culture and language. Why is it so fascinating?
Spanish culture and language. Why is it so fascinating?
Language Differences Make Us Interesting And Unique
While there is a great variety of English accents and dialects, the same is also very true for the Spanish speaking parts of the world. A tourist in Barcelona, Spain, might hear some familiar words, but if they then travel to Colombia, the very same sentence might...
Spanish Language And What Makes It Special
There are 142 different language families, and 7,151 languages are spoken today. 40% of these languages are endangered, and only 23 languages represent more than half of the world's population. Of these 23, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. It...
How to Prevent Your Kids from Losing What They Learned in School During Summer Vacation.
You know that practice makes perfect – so what happens when you don’t practice for an extended period of time? Many students view summer vacation as a time to completely separate from academic pursuits. While taking a break is important to avoid burnout, doing so may...
Take the first step
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” Lao Tse Imagine for a moment how Samuel Johnson must have felt when he was asked to compile the first dictionary in his native English. A gargantuan task, by any standards. In the end, it took Johnson nine...
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