False friends. Don’t be fooled!

  If you’re familiar with two or more languages you surely have run into “false friends”, and many times, these encounters may seem funny. But depending on the situation, they might not be as friendly. Do you know what a false friend is in a language?  ...

Does language form our thinking?

Have you ever thought about whether your language affects your way of thinking? Or that maybe, your way of thinking affects the way you talk? As we all know, our language is a fundamental part of our culture, but… how does language affect our culture and...

Spanish words that are difficult to translate into English

  It’s possible that Spanish has a vocabulary of over 100,000 words, and this implies that we will find some of them quite difficult to translate into English. For starters, English speakers have a lot of problems to understand that the verb “to...