Coldrings

When summer is over and september comes, quite a few people begin to think of a sort of autumn resolution. Starting something new, something to get them entertained and excited during the forthcoming winter season. And yes, many think of learning a new language, english for instance, as a way […]

How often do you find excuses not to practice?Here are the most popular ones and how to fight them or as I said before…ditch them! #1 “I just don’t feel like it today…” Even when you’re not in the mood to practice, you’re still mentally and physically capable of doing […]

In Maslow’s well-known hierarchy of needs, he ranks belonging and esteem as critical needs, right after things like food, water, oxygen and physical safety.

podcasts are ok too, of course. You might have heard it many times, countries without dubbed movies have better english level. No? Never heard of it? Well, believe it or not only few countries make the effort to dub movies. Leaving the original language and just adding subtitles has many […]

When I was a teenager I had a friend who used to go by the name of Marco, his name was actually Mohammed but in Italy at that time it must have been hard enough for him to deal with all the bullying and racist comment he received, a more […]

/He opens his mouth//but the words won’t come out//He’s choking, how?/ You might have recognized the lyrics …. it’s an Eminem song… about a rapper unable to actually perform. Well this can happen to anyone, especially those speaking a second language. The post of today is about the ”bottleneck hypothesis” […]

A few days ago I was watching a guy picking wilberries, he was waist deep in the thorny bushes all sweaty under the scorching sun. He didn’t mind getting all scratched and sunburnt. I spoke to him about the quality of the berries and he admitted having picked only dry […]

Multilingualism series 3 by Anthony Fornaro Lately I have been wondering if my language skills are slowly and irremediably shrinking. Am I turning goofy? No, I am not. I am just multilingual. Apparently, the ability to speak more than one language might, somehow, affect an individual’s cognitive capacity and result […]

Multiligualism series 2 By Anthony Fornaro To interpret – to decide what the intended meaning of something is. This is quite a wide explanation for a very deep and pluri-dimensional meaning concept such as interpreting, especially when this come to be contextualised in a Multilanguage environment. In fact, an interpreter it is not only a […]

Multilingualism series 1 By Anthony Fornaro “You can find that in aisle 12, just after the south-eastern languages sector” imagine hearing this when asking to a supermarket clerk where to find your favourite soda. This is, of course, very unlikely to happen in real life but gives the idea of how fast […]