Fictional languages are languages created from scratch for the sole purpose of being integrated into a book or a movie. The fact that some authors go to the […]
Language sciences: are they for real or are they fake?
Around four billion six hundred million years ago, gravitation and a cloud of gas gave birth to the Sun. A few million years later, Earth came to be […]
Motivation in language learning or habits?
Motivation in language learning isn’t what people say it is. Motivation as a general rule in fact is a great inner strength that everybody gets endowed with at […]
What is language? A simple tool we are the best at, for now…
We are a lot of animals on planet Earth to be equipped with one body, one mind, two eyes, two ears, one larynx and one tongue. Some animals […]
Who invented sign language? When? How? Why? What!?
I must tell you from the start that I am not going to drop you any name ! Because there are none in fact. It’s true that Juan Pablo […]
Assimil course: my favorite method to start learning a language
For those who are wondering : no, I don’t speak all the languages mentioned below. I just happen to have an unfortunate tendency to feel like learning all […]
How to transform your passive vocabulary into an active one
This long word list locked behind opaque doors Passive vocabulary are all those words that we understand when we hear or read them, but that we don’t use. […]
Lingua francas, the vehicular languages of the world
What is a lingua franca ? A lingua franca is a language people of a region usually use with one another when their respective first languages are not […]
Free blank conjugation sheet ready to download
Here is a conjugation sheet to be filled out and printed or to be printed and filled out (as you choose !) PDF I made it very simple so […]
Learn Arabic writing it down
Are you learning the Arabic language ? Then don’t forget to write it down ! No, not that you’re learning Arabic, but Arabic itself, the letters, you know ? Starting from […]
Alphabets of the world but also syllabaries and logographies
A single drawing being worth a thousand words, please look intensely at the one below. Thank you very much … Alphabets Alphabets are composed of letters representing the simplest […]
First writings ever
(This above took me hours and hours to make, just saying …) A mystery up until the 19th century, Egyptian hieroglyphs were given birth to shortly after cuneiform […]
