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It's a bit more complex than it seems at first sight.
Marco Neves

November 2022

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…
Marco Neves

October 2022

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.
Marco Neves
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…
Marco Neves

September 2022

Between Northern Portugal and Galicia, there was once a territory controlled by neither Portugal nor Spain. I’m talking about Couto Misto, which existed…
Marco Neves
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…
Marco Neves

August 2022

One way to travel through languages is to take a word and pull the thread. Let's try it with port wine...
Marco Neves
In the third and final part of the article, we compare language to clay.
Marco Neves
In this second part of the article, there's a lot of talk about Basque — and Greek. I also ask: When does a language become another language?
Marco Neves
Was Irish invented in the twentieth century? Did Galician emerge in the nineteenth century? Of course not, but some say so.
Marco Neves
Answering this question helps us to understand the value of translation.
Marco Neves

July 2022

Let us imagine what it would have been like to travel from Lisbon to the Pyrenees 700 years ago.
Marco Neves
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