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• A Look at the Tagalog Language

  From here. A look at the Tagalog language from the view of how hard it is to learn for an English speaker. Tagalog is not extremely difficult, but it is not eas... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 LANGUAGES

• A Look at the Japanese Language

  From here.A look at Japanese, with a view to how hard it is to learn for a speaker of EnglishJapanese also uses a symbolic alphabet, but the symbols themselves... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Bulgarian and Macedonian Languages

  From here.A look at how hard the Bulgarian and Macedonian languages are to learn from the POV of an English speaker.It’s controversial whether Bulgarian is an... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 LANGUAGES, POLITICS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• A Look at the Celtic Languages

  From here.A look at the Celtic languages from the point of view of how hard they are to learn for an English speaker.Insular Celtic GoidelicThe verbal system... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the English Language

  From here.A look at the English language from the POV of how hard it is for a speaker of another language trying to learn English as a second language.People... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Spanish Language

  From here.This post will look at how difficult it is to learn Spanish for an English speaker.Spanish is often said to be one of the easiest languages to learn,... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Russian Language

  From here. This post will discuss how hard it is for an English speaker to learn Russian.People are divided on the difficulty of Russian, but language teachers... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Malay and Indonesian Languages

  From here.This post will focus on how hard it is to learn the Malay and Indonesian languages for an English language speaker. As you can see below, these are tw... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Indo-Aryan Languages

  From here.This post will focus on how hard it is to learn the various Indo-Aryan languages if you are an English language speaker. We will look at Kashmiri,... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Persian Language

  From here.This post will focus on how hard it is to learn Persian if you are an English language speaker.Persian is easier to learn than its reputation, as... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bigfoot News August 19, 2013

  

  Rick Dyer recants all of his weird stories about Hank the Bigfoot. In a recent podcast, Rick said he made up a lot of stuff about Hank, including that it was... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Chinese Language

  From here.This post will look at how hard it is to learn Chinese for an English speaker.It’s fairly easy to learn to speak Mandarin at a basic level, though... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Evidence That Some Languages Are Harder to Learn Than Others

  From here and here.The standard view in Linguistics is that there are no easy or hard languages for either children L1 learners or older and adult L2 learners. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• OCD and Homicidal Thoughts

  Homicidal thoughts or harming thoughts are quite common in a type of OCD called “Harm OCD.” It can get pretty bad. As a counselor and a sufferer, I have dealt... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Tattoos in the Workplace,” by Alpha Unit

  It’s the most excruciating pain you could ever experience in your life. Or not.It feels like being splattered with specks of burning hot grease – over and... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Portuguese Language

  From here.This post will look at the Portuguese language from the view of how hard it is to learn for the native English speaker. The European and Brazilian... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Dutch Languages

  From here.Here we will look at the three languages in the Dutch family – Dutch, Afrikaans and Flemish, from the point of view of how hard they are to learn for ... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the German Language

  From here.We will look at German from the POV of how hard it is to learn German, coming from the background of a native English speaker.German’s status is... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Does English Grammar Have Rules?

  From here.One problem with English grammar is that it is a mess! There are languages with very easy grammatical rules like Indonesian and languages with very... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Phrasal Verbs in English

  From here.English verbal phrases or phrasal verbs are a nightmare for the English language learner. English language learners often say that phrasal verbs are... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY