Nederlands is de officiële taal van Nederland en is één van de 3 officiële talen in België (samen met Frans en Duits). In België is het de overheersende taal van het noordelijke gebied “Vlaanderen”. Ik heb in het verleden zelf 1 jaar in Nederland gewoond (Utrecht) en vervolgens heb ik ook nog 5 jaar in […]
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FluentU is a new website and iPhone app that offers a platform where you can access video clips in your target language based on your level in the language with double subtitles (target language and English).FluentU comes both in freemium and 2 premium versions (US$8 or US$18/month). At the moment, the following languages are available
HelloTalk is a language partner app that I recently tried out for Russian, Romanian and Ukrainian (there are more than 100 languages to select from). The app comes as freeware and also as a premium version priced at €0.99/month or €8.99/year. The premium version offers, amongst other features, unlimited translation, transliteration, transcription, chat history and
Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands and one of Belgium’s 3 official languages (along with French and German). In Belgium it is the predominant language in the northern province of Flanders. I have had the opportunity to live in the Netherlands (in Utrecht) for one year and Belgium (in bilingual Brussels) for 5.
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Busuu has an intriguing name being the name of a near-extinct language in Cameroon. Busuu, the company, on the other hand is world’s largest social network for language learning – the polar opposite in terms of daily users to its namesake. Busuu offers its courses as a smartphone app and as a web based desktop
Russian is today an official language of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as, in certain regions that are de jure part of Georgia (Abkhazia & South Ossetia), Moldova (Transnistria & Gagauzia), Ukraine (almost 10 oblasts), Romania (several municipalities in Tulcea and Constanța countries) and Norway (Russian EZ in Spitsbergen). Moreover, Russian is
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Memrise’s website carries the slogan “We make learning languages and vocab so full of joy and life, you’ll laugh out loud.”. Certainly a different claim to other learning software. Memrise does not just focus on helping learners with languages but has over 300,000 courses. Memrise offers its courses as a smartphone app and as a
Guest Post de Paul Mains Con más de 40 millones de habitantes cada uno, España y Argentina son dos de los más grandes países hispanohablantes del mundo. Sus capitales — Madrid y Buenos Aires, respectivamente — son metrópolis bulliciosas, con tradiciones e historias ricas. Sin embargo, a pesar de tener el mismo idioma oficial, ambas
