French is an elegant language that has been around for centuries and is spoken by over 220 million people around the world. It is one of the top 5 most spoken languages in the world, and is the official language… Continue Reading
It used to be that human perception was considered to be a fairly objective recording device. Much like a camera lens, eyes were supposed to provide an image of the outside world as it exists – an objective, unbiased look.… Continue Reading
We’re all familiar with the famous Pavlovian dogs – ring a bell and the dog begins to salivate, because it’s been trained to associate the bell with food. This is an example of classical conditioning – a small example of… Continue Reading
Learning a second language can be time-consuming and challenging, but in the end, it is completely worth it. For starters, learning a new language can get you to connect with people from different cultures more easily; you’ll be able to… Continue Reading
When one thinks of education, the imagery that comes to mind is probably that of attending university with classmates in a classroom. Though this method of attaining a good education is applaudable, the means of getting a good education have… Continue Reading
As we’ve covered on our blog before, it’s not always easy to distinguish between a language and a dialect. One criterion that can help differentiate between the two is mutual intelligibility. That means whether two speakers can understand each other… Continue Reading
Living in a diverse community and interacting with people of different colours on a regular basis gives rise to an opportunity to learn different languages. As levels of understanding and chemistry between people rise, it gives birth to a new… Continue Reading
With the emergence of the novel coronavirus in the first half of 2020, the world’s education systems have been through a test by fire. On-location learning went out the window in many countries around the globe, as schools scrambled to… Continue Reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Estonia#/media/File:South_Estonian_today.PNGYou probably haven’t thought that much about Estonian before. After all, it is only spoken in a very tiny part of Europe and the chances that you’ve heard the language spoken are quite slim, as there are only around a… Continue Reading
In this series, we will talk about the main developments in the discipline that was later called Linguistics, which lead us to our current understanding of the properties of language, the relationship between language and our social world and the… Continue Reading
