Commas are confusing creatures. You don’t know when to use them and when to ditch them. Nevertheless, you must learn when to add a comma to your sentence if you want to make your writing more legible. You see, a big part of using commas revolves around the meaning of a sentence and the information …
Marcel Iseli
There are many expressions in the English language that we take for granted and don’t give a second thought to. For example, when was the last time you gave “someone a taste of their own medicine”? Or, has it ever happened to you that something bad turned out to be a “blessing in disguise”? You …
Whenever you are talking to someone, you always want to tie everything you say together. It makes it easier for the listener to follow you. This is why you may find yourself using words like “however,” “so,” and “because.” Each one of these words hints at the relationship between what you are about …
Even though it is usually better to be concise, there are a lot of situations in English where you’ll find an expression can convey what you want to say better than a single word can. For instance, you can call a man “laconic,” or you can refer to him as “a man of few …
English descends from Proto-Germanic, the same ancestor that birthed the modern German language. Ergo, it should come as no surprise that both the English and German languages have plenty in common. Aside from the fact that both languages share plenty of words together, their grammar can be quite similar. More importantly, these two West Germanic …
The English language is filled with similar words that can have different meanings. That is why this West Germanic language can be so confusing for beginners. For instance, fortuitous and fortunate have two different meanings, and torturous has a very different definition than tortuous. One reason there are so many words that are so similar …
Japanese words may be hard to translate thanks in large part to the uniqueness of the Japanese culture. There are several reasons Japan has a one-of-a-kind culture. For starters, the Japanese have lived on an island for millennia, where they have been isolated from the outside world for a very large part of their history. …
Before getting started, it is worth noting that the German language is filled with words that are untranslatable to English. A big reason for this is that German allows for the creation of compound words in a way that English just can’t keep up with. In fact, most of the words on our list are …
Feeling a little like channeling your inner child? Japanese name enders —ちゃん(“chan”) and —くん (“kun”) are two great additions to anyone’s Japanese vocabulary bank. These two words are a type of suffix you can add to someone’s name to communicate a range of information. Today, we’ll give you a rundown on these two words, and …