How do languages handle non-binary people?

What are your pronouns? In English, the most common answers are “he” or “she”. But a growing number of people identify as neither male nor female, and ask to be referred to with novel pronouns. “They” is by far the most common of these. In English, the linguistic adjustments required to accommodate non-binary people are…

La animación aplicada a la comunicación

La animación es la creación de una secuencia de imágenes que, al ser mostradas de forma consecutiva, se logra generar un movimiento que es percibido y creíble para nuestro cerebro. Sin embargo, la animación es mucho más que eso; pues, actualmente, este medio está siendo utilizado en diversos campos de la comunicación por su eficacia para compartir información de manera visual.

Impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education

Artificial Intelligence in education offers numerous possibilities to add more value to students, facilitates the teaching-learning process and improve the positioning of educational institutions. What years ago, might have seemed like science fiction, today is a reality completely applicable to projects and institutions of all kinds thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI uses fields such…

Word of the Day

Vox populi Etymology Latin, voice of the people What It Means Vox populi is a Latin phrase that translates to “the voice of the people” and means, in essence, “popular sentiment or opinion.” A successful campaign manager and ardent defender of workers’ rights, Adela dedicates her time to speaking on behalf of vox populi. VOX POPULI in Context…

Tips para usar el lenguaje corporal para dar una mejor impresión.

Cómo fingirlo hasta lograrlo. Cuando comencé a estudiar el lenguaje corporal, me di cuenta de que tantas personas, incluida yo, no saben lo que su lenguaje corporal le está comunicando a los otros. La mayor parte de lo que el lenguaje corporal “dice”, es muy ambiguos. Alguien podría estar “leyendo” lo que dice tu lenguaje…

The Passive Infinitive

Hello everyone! For today’s mini lesson, let’s talk about the passive infinitive. The passive infinitive is ‘be + past participle’. We can use it in the same places as the normal infinitive to show a passive meaning. USE We can use the passive infinitive after verbs that usually take ‘to + infinitive‘. We can use the…

Atelier: la tâche e(s)t le défi : du A1 au B1

L’approche actionnelle a mis à l’honneur la tâche finale dans l’apprentissage des langues. L’atelier propose d’explorer les types de tâches proposées dans Défi A1 et A2, et de s’approprier des techniques d’enseignement pour mettre en œuvre les savoirs linguistiques nécessaires à la réalisation de ces tâches. Le 31 mai dernier, le Département des Langues Étrangères a eu l’opportunité de participer à…

Using ‘by’ or ‘with’ to say how something is done

Hello everyone! For today’s mini lesson, let’s talk about how to use ‘by’ and ‘with’ to say how something is done. We can use both ‘by + verb+ing’ and ‘with + noun’ to explain how we do something. BY We usually use verb+ing with ‘by’. ‘By’ is used with an action. Examples: • He opened…