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Prague is completely set up to welcome tourists. Whatever Czech you learn, it will probably be more than what most ...

Czech is my first Slavic language too and I find it freaking hard compared to Romance and Germanic languages. Not ...

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Are there some usages which are not used in the conversational English?

"I saw the girl whose beauty took my breath away. I saw a girl, the beauty of whom took my ...

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Asian languages have a higher voice pitch than English?

Yea, customer service in Japan (especially women) sound like they have been inhaling nitrous oxide or sucking helium from a ...

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It's been awhile since I chewed someone's ass off, and your last post gave me a perfect opportunity

Yes, in this context it's extremely rude and it's also condescending. Please don't use it unless you are sure that ...

Let's be honest - Chinese is easy and French is hard

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=speaking-tonal-languages "In results to be presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego on November ...

@Steve--There must be a correlation between classically-trained vocalists and the ability to pronounce well. This is not a correlation with ...

Odie, ROFL!!! Thank you for sharing that. Vonk raises a good point. I was wondering if a person with perfect ...

I read this thread discussing why French is so hard to understand. http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=288545&page=2 I agree with all these people. Except ...

Personally my problem is not one of dialects, it's with languages that lend themselves to mashing sounds together. My landlord ...

Revelation: The only way to learn is to study!

Not sure if you've ever tried this book: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Busy-People-III-Revised/dp/4770030118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334565807&sr=1-1. Of course having a native speaker to answer your questions really ...

Let's be honest - Chinese is easy and French is hard

For me the #1 difficulty is when words are smooshed together and I have to make sense of them. So ...

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Learning about economics

I self-study economics for my personal goal of managing my investments. I invest primarily in commodities and foreign currencies. I ...

Fluent in Three Months?

Good for Moses for not feeling the need to prioritize European languages. It's not the 19th century, so he can ...