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29/06/2016

What’s the Difference Between Luggage and Baggage?

    Synonyms give language richness and texture. Words that are otherwise very close in meaning often have subtle differences. Much of English vocabulary originated from […]
15/06/2016

Hollywood

    At the start of the 20th century, a new city was beginning to grow on some flat land near the sea in southern California; its […]
11/05/2016

Why grammar Mistakes In A Short Email Could Make Some People Judge You

I’m a cognitive psychologist who studies language comprehension. If I see an ad for a vacation rental that says “Your going to Hollywood!” it really bugs […]
27/04/2016

10 Phrasal Verbs That Are Useful for Business

Communicating with native English speakers in a business setting means you’ll hear phrasal verbs at least once, if not several times, during a conversation. Phrasal verbs […]
02/03/2016

How fear can hold you back from learning a foreign language?

STEPPING OUT OF BARCELONA’S El Prat Airport in a Vineyard Vines shirt and an iPhone in hand, I looked like the ultimate American tourist. Wherever I […]
17/02/2016

What does it mean to be bilingual? (part 2)

The bilingual brain World and language Language creates our first connection to the world. The newborn child that takes a deep breath and cries out is […]
20/01/2016

What does it mean to be bilingual? (part 1)

What goes on in the brain of a bilingual person, and what are the effects of being raised in two languages? In this video and article, […]
06/01/2016

Important people: Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary who is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc, was born on […]
09/12/2015

The Origins of These 3 Bizarrely Spelled English Words

English is linguistically categorized as a West Germanic language. Though it is now the most widely spoken language in the world, English actually got a pretty […]