Italki vs Gymglish: which is best?
Created in 2007, italki is a language learning platform offering more than 130 languages. Who knew that there were that many? The platform currently has over 5 million learners and 10,000 teachers.
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10 animal-related French idioms you need to know to horse around with the language
Learning French is a full-time occupation, despite how troubling it is that no one is paying for us to do so.
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The European language landscape: a tour of the Italian language
Today, we take a look at the role of the Italian language in the European language learning landscape.
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Lingvist vs. Gymglish: which is best?
Launched in 2014, Lingvist is a language learning platform that offers 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Portuguese.
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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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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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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.
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The European language landscape: a tour of the French language
When it comes to linguistic diversity, Europe may appear to be a poor performer at first glance. In terms of indigenous languages, it accounts for only 3% of the world’s spoken languages, a percentage that pales in comparison to 30% for Africa or Asia.
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Review: languages in the world
How many languages do you think exist in the world? 500? 999? 3,456? Ethnologists have established that there are currently around 7,100, and that is without counting dialects and variants.
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