The Language Studio
We’ve all been there. You’ve just come back from a fantastic three-week trip through a country you hadn’t been to before, seen picture-perfect views and tasted brand new cuisine, and when someone asks...
It can be difficult to change habits of pronunciation. Sometimes, you may know how to pronounce a word correctly by itself, but reading a sentence fast can lead you to say things incorrectly. We...
Last week we highlighted some common mistakes Spanish speakers make in English. Here is another collection of difficulties for Hispanophones. Uncountable or unpluralisable words Most uncountable words are the same in English and Spanish;...
If you have Chinese as a mother tongue, learning English is very difficult, as there are no shared roots between the two languages. However, native Spanish speakers have an advantage; 30-40% of English comes...
I love cooking. Some people come home, put on the TV and watch a series. I come home, put on some jazz, and look in the fridge. I relax in...
English is the lingua franca of the world. It is by far the most popular second language learnt, and it is being taught in almost every country. Sometimes well, sometimes...
I grew up in England, however, every summer I visited Gibraltar, where my father is from. My Gibraltarian family spoke Llanito, a mix of English and Spanish. Although as a teenager my Spanish was...
Here are a few things that I’ve learnt in my first six months in Argentina. Vegetarianism isn’t well understood. Similar conversations to this have taken place in my best Spanish: ‘Do you have any...
Undoubtedly, the ideal environment to learn a language is a country where it is spoken. When we were children, we didn’t put any special effort into learning our mother tongue; we soaked it...
