FALSE FRIENDS IN LANGUAGES
Whilst it is entirely proper in an English-speaking country to ask about the preservatives in the food item you would like to buy and grab a birthday gift for your German friend in the shop across the street, w...
Dublin: Brazilian’s sweetheart
Dublin city has been one of the favourite destinations for Brazilian exchange students in the last few years.
Official data from 2018 has shown the largest increase of Brazilian nationals living in Ir...
The long, slow death of shorthand
The headline from above written in Teeline shorthand
Once the holy grail of secretarial skills and the backbone of great court reporters, it's feared that the death knell is getting ever closer for shorthand. ...
Untranslatable Norwegian words described using Instagram
Having been an exchange student for a few months in Dublin, I have realized that some Norwegian words are almost impossible to translate to English. Most of the time there are words in English that are similar ...
Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week)
Welcome in Irish - photo credit - David Precious (Flickr)
The Irish language was the most widely spoken language on the island of Ireland until the 19th century. But, nowadays, it's a language that is har...
The Language Of Gamers
Since the beginning of video games, video game players have developed a unique language of their own.
While many gamers probably use a cornucopia of these slang words to describe various aspects of video gam...