Licenciatura en Idiomas – UNINTER
This is one of the most common tips given to us when we are learning a new language, but does it really work? There’s a small reason why it’s probably not working, and that’s that it’s not enough to just sit and eat popcorn without understanding anything. That’s why I recommend that you always keep…
¿Inglés? Ni una palabra ¿Español? Menos… ¿Mandarín clásico? Excelente. ¿Energía y entusiasmo? A borbotones. La falta de conocimiento del idioma español —así como de cualquier otra lengua occidental— no fue un impedimento para que el reconocido letrado chino Lin Shu se abocara a la monumental tarea de traducir “El ingenioso hildago don Quijote de la Mancha” a la lengua china.…
Once you learn these rare but wonderful words, use them in conversation. 1. Biblioklept Definition: one who steals books Biblioklept is, in at least some sense of the word, fairly useless. It is two syllables longer than book thief. It is also unlikely to be understood by some portion of the people with whom you…
Si te nombran “La Divina Comedia” quizás pienses que es una de las obras cumbres de la literatura universal, pero sólo de interés si lo tuyo es la Italia del siglo XIV. Aunque han pasado 700 años desde la muerte del florentino Dante Alighieri, su estremecedor poema épico sigue siendo relevante. Dante trata grandes interrogantes,…
The hard part of learning a new language is having to learn everything you know in a new vocabulary. To make the words stick in your mind, I suggest that instead of memorizing them, you relate them or make an emotional connection with the new words. Relate: When I started French, I had trouble remembering…
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…
In this blog you will find 15 English idioms that everyone should know. But first, what is an idiom? Idioms are group of words, or in other words, a phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words in it. In other words “Idioms mean something different than the individual words.” Native…
Comparada con Virginia Woolf y James Joyce, es considerada hermética, permeada por la experimentación lingüística, entre líneas y “silencios”. Sus tramas son prácticamente inexistentes y es conocida por sus rupturas de las reglas de puntuación, con una novela, por ejemplo, que comienza con una coma y termina con dos puntos. La obra de Clarice Lispector…
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…
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…