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13 reasons to travel

Many students learn languages because they love to travel around the world. To travel means to discover new cities and countires, to learn something new every day and to meet persons from all over the world. You could search for your next language school here or you could read the following reasons for travelling before …

Language schools in Johannesburg

The largest city in South Africa is Johannesburg. It’s the provincial capital and the seat of the Constitutional Court. The city is located in the Witwatersrand range of hills and known for its museums, theatres, galleries and libraries. While studying a foreign language you could visit different museums, like the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Adler …

False friends in Spanish

Learning a foreign language means to get in touch with difficult words or false friends. A false friend is known by every language learner and could be described as a word which is frequently confused with a word in another language. The reason for that phenonmenon is that these two words sound or look similar, …

Quotes to reach your goal

A specific goal is very important for your learning process because only with goals you could learn faster and make progress.You can have goals at home, but also in a language school where you learn a foreign language with others. If you want to read more about goals for language learners, check this article. Quotes …

Greetings in Russian

The Russian language is an East Slavic language and belongs to the Indo-European languages. It is spoken for example in Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan and is official language in eleven states. In addition the Russian alphabet is called Cyrillic. Greetings in Russian дравствуйте! – Hello! (formal, at any time) Привет. – Hi. (informal) Добро …

False Friends in French

As an English speaker you could find false friends in other languages. A few weeks ago we wrote an article about false friends in Italian which you can read here. But also in French you will find a lot of false friends which could be a little bit confusing for language learners. If you want …

How to use clustering

Clustering is a learning technique which was developped by Gabriele Rico and which has a lot of similarities to MindMapping. Also in different language schools you will get in touch with learning techniques while learning a foreign language – be open and try them. What is Clustering? Clustering is a learning technique for persons who …