Swedish is a beautiful language. However, it can be a bit intimidating when you start learning it. You’re probably asking yourself lots of questions: Where do I start? How much time will it take to learn Swedish? What’s the best way to learn Swedish? Will I ever be able to speak Swedish the way native …
Learning a language can be fun; speaking the language, well, that’s another thing. One of the universal experiences of language learning is that first time when you try to communicate in that language. You have prepared the perfect Greek sentence, you proceed to utter it with complete confidence when, alas! The native speaker starts something …
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Falling in love with Italian is almost instantaneous, and so is the idea of learning it. You think, hey, I like this language and its culture, and boom!, one second later you feel a strong desire to actually speak this language. However, what does not happen immediately is the learning process itself. You know that …
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Are you looking to understand -AR verbs in Spanish? Do you want a quick review to learn how to conjugate them? Are you curious about the most common irregular Spanish verbs ending in -AR? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll briefly explain how Spanish verbs work and then move on to …
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Learning German grammar is one of those things that every learner always dreads. But even though the idea may be daunting, with the right German grammar practice strategies, you might just find it’s not that bad. In this post, we’ll go over some of the best and most effective ways to learn and practice German …
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The verb “dire” means to say or to tell. We use the dire conjugation in French to express or transmit words, ideas, thoughts or information, either verbally or in writing, or even through gestures. As a rule of thumb, the translation of dire is “say” when there is no indirect object of the sentence, and …
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Have you checked in with your feelings lately? If so, that’s great! But have you done it in Spanish? We can certainly help you with that! In this article, we’ll go over the sentir conjugation in Spanish. We’ll start by looking at what type of verb it is, its different meanings and its verbals. We’ll …
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What do German words kennen and wissen, Spanish words saber and conocer, and French words savoir and connaître have in common? They all mean “to know”. Indeed, when you translate “know” into different languages, there are often two different verbs, with slightly different meanings. While it may seem confusing at first glance, you’ll quickly discover …
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Unlike English, which has basic verb conjugations that make it almost impossible to get the subject of a sentence wrong, Italian is a fickle language. As we will see, getting one conjugation wrong can completely change the subject of a sentence. This is why it is very, very important to have a consistent Italian conjugation …
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Every time we try to learn a new language, we encounter three major obstacles: the language’s grammar, its vocabulary, and our perfectionism. Suppose you want to learn Greek. We’ve previously addressed the difficulties of Greek grammar. As for the perfectionism issue, I wouldn’t even try to tackle it in a blog post. So, that brings us to …
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