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Russian grammar 101
Just like English, the Russian language has a grammatical structure that is too complex for one blog post.…
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Learning the Versatile Spanish Past Participle
The Spanish past participle is a verb form that can be used to make more complex verbal phrases,…
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Who’s afraid of Chinese Tones?
For people that haven’t studied the language, rumors of the four Chinese tones are passed around like ghost…
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The Language of Love: French Terms of Endearment
French is known as the language of love and romance, so of course there are many unique ways…
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The Present Perfect in Spanish in Two Easy Steps
The present perfect in Spanish is used to talk about things that we have or haven’t done in…
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Become a Better English Speaker Through Passive Listening
According to internet polyglot and LingQ cofounder Steve Kaufmann, listening is by far the most important language skill.…
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Happy New Year in Japanese (and Other Greetings)
New Year’s Day marks the end of weeks of winter celebration. There was Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and then…
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Russian Words That Don’t Exist in English
Comparing English and Russian is like comparing apples to oranges. English is a Germanic language and Russian belongs…
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Essential Italian Verbs: Essere and Avere
Verbs are a crucial part of any language. Try to make a sentence without using one and you…
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The Curious Case of the Verb “To Be”
Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. The very first thing most of us learned after the…
