Gymglish, Author at The Gymglish blog

The foreign language learning landscape in the EU

At Gymglish, we are passionate about learning languages. We strive to make learning as fun and easy as possible. In this article, we present a summary of the results of a foreign language skills study published in April 2019 by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office.

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The European language landscape: a tour of the German language

While there is a strategic interest in learning European languages, necessity is far from being the only guarantee of their sustainability: they have many other assets that justify their expansion worldwide.

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5 English – Italian false friends that will betray you when you least expect it.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer – that’s what any sensible person with a ton of enemies would say. False friends (or falsi amici) are words that are similar or identical in spelling or sound in two languages but actually have significantly different meanings.

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English certification: all you need to know about the BRIGHT exam

The BRIGHT English test is offered by BRIGHT Language, based in the USA. BRIGHT Language offers tests in 11 languages: English, Italian, French, Russian, Flemish, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish and German.

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“Tomorrow’s learners will seek out hybrid learning methods.” – Seppe Gérimont, Language Teams, Gymglish partner

Founded in 2021, Language Teams is a language school offering online, on-site and business language courses for adults.

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Hearing – The Word of the Month for March 2022

Every month, we take a look at a word in the headlines, in English, for your English. See more at The Word of the Month.

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Corporate training – No train, no gain

When asked to write about trains, I immediately put on my conductor hat and yelled “choo choo!”. After my assistant told me that it was a different type of “train”, I nearly fired her on the spot. Now I’m feeling calmer, and though I’m still wearing my conductor hat (and nothing else), I’m ready to […]

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The European language landscape: a tour of the Spanish language

With 500 million speakers, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. It is also the third most studied language in schools, after English and French, and the third most used language on the Internet, after English and Chinese.

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5 songs to fine tune your Italian

If you’re in the process of learning Italian, you might need a little break from your grammar book, and we can hardly blame you. We can blame you a little though.

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Studied vs. spoken languages: what are the differences?

You might think that the most widely studied languages in the world are also the most spoken. Or that they are the most represented in schools. This is not always the case.