03/06/2019
10 Most Difficult Words to Pronounce in (British) English
10 Most Difficult Words to Pronounce in English | British English Lesson
In this English lesson we look at the 10 most difficult words to pronounce in English. I could have chosen hundreds of words for this video but I've chosen t...
30/05/2019
10 Letters We Dropped From The Alphabet
10 Letters We Dropped From The Alphabet
Think you know the English language? Here are 10 letters folks used to use, but didn't quite stand the test of time. Elemenopee, my homies.
27/05/2019
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
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17/05/2019
Ranking languages on a universal scale of difficulty is itself difficult and controversial.
What makes a language difficult?
EVERYONE has the intuition that some languages are more difficult than others. For the native English-speaker, professional agencies that teach foreign languages have made it quite clear. America’s state department reckons that Spanish, Swedish or French can be learned in 575-600 class hours (“C...
30/05/2016
founder: "What is your vision for an ideal language learning experience?"
What is your vision for an ideal language learning experience?
Answer: A one-to-one human tutor that understands you, your learning patterns and needs, and that you can access anywhere and at any time.
29/04/2015
Language profoundly influences the way people see the world.
Lost in Translation
New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish
09/03/2015
Here’s What Will Truly Change Education.
The failure of MOOCs to disrupt higher education has nothing to do with the quality of the courses.
Colleges are holding technology at bay because the only thing MOOCs provide is access to world-class professors at an unbeatable price. What they don’t offer are official college degrees, the kind that can get you a job.