Getting closer! One of the most anticipated holidays of the year. It’s easy to see why Halloween is one of the most beloved holidays of the year, so let’s look at ten things about October 31 that make your hair stand on end. I hope you like it and of course don’t forget to go…
Hearing is the beginning of our interaction with the environment, and this begins before we’re born; because hearing is the only sense that works at 100% in the gestational stage. So the brain’s function in language learning is to pick up sound information, to get used to the tonality, musicality and energy of the words.…
New Mexico is losing a form of Spanish from the earliest Spanish-speaking settlers which has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. QUESTA, N.M. — When the old regulars gather at Cynthia Rael-Vigil’s coffee shop in Questa, N.M., a village nestled in the snow-capped Sangre de Cristo Mountains, they sip lattes…
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…
Taiwanese students spend thousands of hours studying English. Yet after three to five class-hours of English as a foreign language every week for more than nine years, most students can barely utter a sentence of English. The government’s “Bilingual Nation 2030” policy would do little to change this. As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies would soon…
Con el objetivo de mostrar las evidencias de aprendizaje de cada licenciatura, la Escuela de Humanidades Lenguas e Internacionalización EHLI; exhibió los mejores proyectos realizados por sus estudiantes, en los cuales tanto alumnos como maestros vieron reflejados los frutos de su trabajo.
El Digital News Report 2022 es la undécima edición del principal informe sobre consumo de información digital en el mundo. Elaborado por el Instituto Reuters de la Universidad de Oxford, a partir de más de 93.000 encuestas realizadas en 46 países, el estudio está disponible en español gracias al apoyo de la Fundación Gabo, con el fin de acercarlo al público iberoamericano.
Have you ever worn winklepickers or salopettes? Is the saying about French women and their oxters true? Do your friends complain that you bibble too much? Have you ever experienced zoanthropy and been convinced you were an elephant? Do you have a favorite weird word in English or any other language? Drop us the word and definition in the comments section below! bibble v.…
MHIP Day is celebrated on July 6 each year in Mizoram, India. M.H.I.P. stands for ‘Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl,’ which means ‘binding women together.’ The M.H.I.P. is the largest N.G.O. in Mizoram state and the only N.G.O. dedicated to women’s welfare. Through philanthropic social work and local advocacy, the M.H.I.P. uplifts the women of Mizoram…
Es cierto que hay culturas que prefieren una comunicación más indirecta y sutil donde reina la mano izquierda para salvar la cara de cada uno. Sin embargo, a nivel internacional, los expertos recomiendan técnicas de comunicación directa para evitar malentendidos interculturales.