Fluent in 3 weeks

TweetSo you want to become fluent in a language in 3 weeks? Honestly, I don’t think this is possible. Language learning takes time. Sorry, wrong answer! This is not what people want to hear. Some “language learning guru” says you can do it in just a few months.

Weird Tennis Course

TweetA few weeks ago, I went to play tennis with my friend. We found the two courts beside us booked for some kind of tennis course. I saw about 10 students who looked like to be in their twenties, all sitting in their chairs. The coach was standing in front of them making some kind [...]

Google’s Babel Fish

TweetHere is my latest fish-joke. It was Chinese New Year last week. My colleague of Mexican origin instant-messaged me: ‘新年好’ (good New-Year). Obviously, he had been playing around with Google Translate. So I challenged him that, with the help of Google Translate, he should not have any more excuse not to chat with me in [...]

Learn French Before You Hijack

TweetThis story just came out today. “A cunning pilot thwarted a hijacking by discreetly warning the passengers in French — a language the gunman didn’t speak — that he would knock the attacker off-balance with a rough landing, and that they should be ready to pounce.” Note the irony that the hijacker wants to go [...]

Fun With Global Translator

TweetHere is a follow-up on my recent post “Fish Jokes“. Although I discourage my fellow-bloggers to provide machine-translation links to their pages, from a reader’s point of view, I do find the existence of these links very meaningful. Indeed, they are extremely entertaining!

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