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  • Learning Italian

Italian Slang: The Devil is in the Detail

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 26 Apr, 2018
Italian Slang: The Devil is in the Detail

Knowing formal Italian is important for professional purposes and many other everyday situations a language learner can find himself or herself in. However, if you want to be well-versed and …

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  • Learning Japanese

Japanese Grammar: Get to Grips with the Basics

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 19 Apr, 2018
Japanese Grammar: Get to Grips with the Basics

The English language and the Japanese language have very strong differences that can seem off-putting to a native speaker of either language to attempt to learn the other. When focussing …

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  • Learning Japanese

Japanese Particles: an Introduction

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 22 Mar, 2018
Japanese Particles: an Introduction

Japanese is a language that is not dependent upon sentence structure so much as it is dependent upon particles (in Japanese, joshi, 助詞). Particles are characters that relate a noun …

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  • Learning Spanish

The Easiest Way to Learn Spanish Reflexive Verbs

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 05 Mar, 2018
The Easiest Way to Learn Spanish Reflexive Verbs

Spanish reflexive verbs are verbs that we use when talking about actions that we do to or for ourselves. They are often common Spanish verbs that are used in our …

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  • Learning French

Speak Like a Native With These French YouTubers

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 22 Feb, 2018
Speak Like a Native With These French YouTubers

French, just like English, is an ever-evolving language that is heavily influenced by the cultures of those who speak it. And just as cultural phenomena change in an instant, so …

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  • Learning Russian

Russian grammar 101

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 13 Feb, 2018

Just like English, the Russian language has a grammatical structure that is too complex for one blog post. However, we’ll try to give a general outline of the Russian grammar …

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  • Learning Spanish

Learning the Versatile Spanish Past Participle

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 08 Feb, 2018

The Spanish past participle is a verb form that can be used to make more complex verbal phrases, but can also be used as an adjective. It’s a great tool …

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  • Learning French

The Language of Love: French Terms of Endearment

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 25 Jan, 2018
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 of expressing affection towards others in French. There are classic English terms …

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  • Learning Japanese

Happy New Year in Japanese (and Other Greetings)

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 01 Jan, 2018
New Year celebration

New Year’s Day marks the end of weeks of winter celebration. There was Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and then New Year’s Eve right at the December’s end. Students wrapped up their …

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  • Learning Russian

Russian Words That Don’t Exist in English

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 21 Dec, 2017
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 to the Slavic language family. This means the languages have completely different …

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  • Learning Italian

Essential Italian Verbs: Essere and Avere

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 14 Dec, 2017
Essential Italian Verbs: Essere and Avere

Verbs are a crucial part of any language. Try to make a sentence without using one and you will realize that they are truly indispensable. The more of them you …

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  • Learning French

Boost Your Conversation Skills: Use French Transition Words

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 27 Nov, 2017
Boost Your Conversation Skills: Use French Transition Words

You are at the Cannes Film Festival in France. You want to describe all of the marvellous sights you see on the red carpet as the stars arrive for a …

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  • Learning Japanese

Japanese Sentence Structure Explained

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 02 Nov, 2017
Japanese Sentence Structure Explained

In English, there is a concrete grammatical structure. In a simple sentence, you have the subject, the verb, and the predicate. Of course, this changes as we get into more …

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  • Learning French

Master the Conditional Tense in French in a Few Easy Steps

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 30 Oct, 2017
Master the Conditional Tense in French in a Few Easy Steps

Je voudrais un café s’il vous plaît. I would like a coffee please. This sentence in French uses the conditional tense. Voudrais is the conditional tense of the verb vouloir …

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  • Learning Russian

Conquering the Genitive Case in Russian

Posted by Avatar photo LingQ on 23 Oct, 2017
Conquering the Genitive Case in Russian

The Russian language is notorious for its six cases, which, along with the endings, arguably make up the biggest challenge for learners. Do not be daunted, though. If you take …

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