Language learning

The noun “kid” in contemporary English is mostly used to informally refer to a child, e.g. “she’s just a kid” or “only 90s kids will (...)

Different sources give very different estimates for the number of native Polish speakers, ranging from 39 million to 55 million, and they (...)

Duolingo is a platform where you can learn many different foreign languages for free. It’s a great way to start learning a language you (...)

A map showing how to wish people a “Merry Christmas” in French, German, Spanish, Italian and other European languages. (...)

English orthography is often ambiguous. For example, the word “read” can be pronounced either /riːd/ (“reed”) or as /rɛd/ (“red”) (...)

The Roman calendar started in March, not January, making November the ninth month of the year—hence the name, from Latin novem, “nine”. (...)

The present subjunctive is a really easy mood to use: it is always identical to the infinitive in English, and speakers of other Germanic (...)

The media seem to have been plagued with expressions like “the criteria is” lately. Unfortunately, such expressions are incorrect because (...)

“Context” can be a countable as well as an uncountable noun. When you speak about context in general, the word is usually uncountable, (...)

Since you are reading this article in English, the odds are you already know what the conjunction “so” means. You probably also know that (...)