Lights Will Guide You Home
Find out how a simple plant, once used to guide Māori hunters home after nightfall, is now a much-loved symbol... View Article
September 18, 2020 9:26 amTag Archive: culture
How to Say ‘Hai’ to a Shark This Shark Awareness Day
Today is Shark Awareness Day, a chance to raise the profile of a type of fish vital to our ecosystem... View Article
July 14, 2020 3:14 pmHobbs and Shaw: A High-Octane Look at Samoan Culture
We’ve talked multiple times before about how important culture is when it comes to languages and language learning. And if... View Article
June 12, 2020 11:47 amDruon Antigoon: The Giant of Antwerp
Last week, we talked about the importance of our culturally-specific topics, which differ from language to language. As our language... View Article
April 3, 2020 4:12 pmWhat Does the Loch Ness Monster Have To Do With Language Learning?
When it comes to learning a new language, where do you start? Pronunciation, maybe, or some listening? Then you’ll start... View Article
March 27, 2020 9:00 amNamaste: Appreciation or Appropriation?
If you visit India, you might feel inclined to greet everyone with ‘namaste,’ a traditional Hindu greeting that shows your... View Article
February 14, 2020 5:20 pmGerman Cuisine: Is It Really the Wurst?
Germany is famous for a lot of things—but its cuisine doesn’t really top that list. Most stereotypes around German food... View Article
October 23, 2019 1:00 pmBasque Boys’ Night Out—And Other Cultural Surprises
Speakers of the Basque language, a language spoken in self-governing parts of France and Spain, have a tradition of male-only... View Article
October 4, 2019 3:00 pmBlog: Who would you like to say ‘Thank you’ to?
Our word of the month for the #LanguageDare is ‘Thank you’ (as all of you who have bravely posted your... View Article
September 28, 2017 10:10 amBlog: European Day of Languages
26th September is European Day of Languages, and in honour of this special day we thought we’d have a look... View Article
September 26, 2017 11:37 am