It's a bit more complex than it seems at first sight.
My son is learning how to write the letter A. His own teacher learnt how to write it around thirty years ago. His teacher’s teacher learnt the same…
It is quite illuminating to see a theatre play in a language we don’t understand. We become quite aware of what is lost without translation.
Hi! While I’m working on a new article for Language Travels, I invite you to read this one from last year. Thanks so much! See you soon, Marco…
Between Northern Portugal and Galicia, there was once a territory controlled by neither Portugal nor Spain. I’m talking about Couto Misto, which existed…
If you ever visit Galicia, you’ll find there are two official languages there: Galician and Spanish. For an English speaker, it may be difficult to…
One way to travel through languages is to take a word and pull the thread. Let's try it with port wine...
In the third and final part of the article, we compare language to clay.
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