Hardest languages

I love infographics and there aren’t enough of them on this blog. So here’s one showing which are the easiest and hardest languages to learn for English speakers. Courtesy of Voxy, a great mobile learning language company, unfortunately (for me) only targeted at Hispanics learning English. Via: Voxy Blog

Learn a bit of structured language and go out immediately into the real world to practice it, where real world really does mean real world and involves the students interacting with the public in libraries, cafes and parks. That’s the idea behind Languages Out There and in March I explored the concept with its founder [...]

What a difference a tone makes!

I think I finally understood a couple of Lenny Henry’s characters after talking to Kole Ade-Odutola about the Yoruba language. Kole is from Nigeria, currently living in the US and teaching Yoruba in Florida. I hadn’t realised that it was a requirement of all university students in America that they should spend some time learning [...]

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