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Polyglot savant
Savants are typically individuals with serious mental disabilities who demonstrate profound and prodigious capacities and/or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal, including the capacity for languages. A well-known case of a polyglot...
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Internet Polyglot: Free Language Lessons Online
Internet Polyglot is dedicated to helping our members learn foreign languages by providing them a way to memorize words and their meanings. This helps your memory to grasp more information and retain it for longer time. Access to all pages is free. Play...
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European Union : The upside of the crisis
In this climate of recession, EU member states have managed to find common ground on longstanding divisive issues: overfishing, asylum rights and the management of borders. Proof, says a Swedish columnist, that Europe is capable of speaking with one voice....
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" RK2928 9 inch Tablet PC with Android 4.1 ". Lo trovate da noi: € 56
HighLights: CPU: Rockchip RK2928 Cortex A9 1GHz OS: Google Android 4.1.1 RAM: 512MB DDR3 ROM: 8GB Internal storage capacity: 5.78GB External storage: Mini SD card (up to 32GB) - not included Screen: 9 inch TFT LCD capacitive multi-touch panel 800 x 480...
Sweden's riots: Is the integration of immigrants failing?
HUNDREDS of cars set on fire, a school in flames and angry youths hurling stones at the police. This is not the banlieue in France but suburbs in supposedly peaceful Sweden. Six nights of arson and violence in Stockholm’s poorer suburbs, where a majority...
Resentment against Erdogan explodes
IT ALL began with a grove of sycamores. For months a tight band of environmentalists had been protesting against a government-backed project to chop the trees down in order to make room for a mall and residential complex in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Last...
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Schengen area: New frontiers
After months of deadlock, the member states and the European Parliament have agreed on new rules facilitating the establishment of internal borders within the Schengen area. But is this really progress, asks a Romanian journalist. Ovidiu Nahoi The European...
The Immersion Effect: The Linguistic Benefits of Teaching Abroad
Today’s article comes from Christina Chandler, a current graduate student and former English teacher. Not only does she take the view that one must actually use a foreign language in order to excel in it, but that this is best done while abroad due to...
Geniuses, Hard Work, and Language Learning
Several weeks ago when different news stations started reporting on Timothy Doner, a 16-year-old New Yorker who speaks 23 languages, I came across an MSNBC interview where three journalists questioned him on his linguistic abilities and how he came to...
Learn a new language: Funny phrases and words
Layogenic is the Tagalog, Philippines way of telling someone that they only look good from afar, while the Japanese use the term bakku-shan to refer to a woman who has a sexy body but a very ugly face. In Danish, kaelling refers to a woman who stands...
How to become fluent in 10 languages
Twenty year old Oxford University undergraduate, Alex Rawlings, is currently the most multi lingual student in the UK. Alex can speak 11 languages: Hebrew, English, Greek, German, Russian, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Afrikaans and Spanish. He won...
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Ioannis Ikonomou: Learning a Second Language….. and a Third….. and a Fourth…..
Do you know who Ioannis Ikonomou is? I didn’t either – that is, until I ran across an article about one of the smartest living human beings. Most of us would consider speaking a second language as a great feat. A third language? Incredible. A fourth language?...
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Turkey: Erdoğan besieged in his ivory tower
Why have the demonstrations against an urban planning project in Istanbul turned into protests against the power of the Prime Minister? Because he has refused to listen to criticism for far too long and seems determined to push ahead regardless, writes...
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Germany: The frontiers of immigration policy
Italy is accused of having offered money to migrants from Africa to encourage them to move on to Germany. A scandal? No, writes Die Zeit: just the consequence of a policy that shuts its eyes to the drama of refugees and dumps the responsibility onto other...
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How my city went under
Son of a Swede and a Dane, journalist Viggo Cavling grew up in one of the suburbs hit by the recent violence. He tells the story of how the buildings that carried the dreams of a progressive society have become ghettos without hope. Viggo Cavling The...
Tender is the Night - di F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night (1934) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel. The story, primarily about human deterioration, the disintegration of love and marriage, and the mental illness that both causes and results from these troubles, was conceived and...
The Great Gatsby - di F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in 1925, it is often referred to as "The Great American Novel," and as the quintessential work which captures the mood of the "Jazz Age." The novel takes place following the...
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Europe needs its Martin Luther
The EU is becoming a corrupt church where Germany rules by a dogmatic economic orthodoxy. Politics must take back control with a protestant schism coming from grassroots initiatives, argues an Italian columnist. Barbara Spinelli It can only happen in...
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The European project is a total failure
Constructed on economic, political and geopolitical criteria, the EU must be judged by the same criteria. And the verdict of the British historian Niall Ferguson is final. Niall Ferguson Thank you. Merci. Mersi. Grazie. Gracias. Grazzi. Go raibh maith...
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Genetics: Europeans, we’re all kissing cousins
Two American researchers recently completed a study of genes from a sample of 40 populations from the European continent. Their conclusion: all of today's Europeans are descended from the same ancestors. Here's why. Michel de Pracontal Take two Europeans...
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‘EU Readies Solar Tariffs In China Fight’
The European Union is planning to impose import taxes on Chinese-made solar panel equipment in a move which is likely to trigger “one of the largest trade battles of recent decades,” writes the business daily. The duties, which will include solar panels,...
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‘200 years of Kierkegaard, philosopher of freedom’
Across the world, celebrations have been planned to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) on May 5. De Groene Amsterdammer reports that his focus on the existence of the individual, as well as awareness...
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Renewal through architecture
Completed just as the financial bubble burst, the Harpa concert hall symbolises the recovery of Iceland following years of gloom. Just one of the reasons why it was awarded the 2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize. Joana Amaral Cardoso Angular,...
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Democracy: Dare to be a little more Swiss!
The EU would do well to take on a little more direct democracy. Switzerland’s example shows that more citizen involvement in deciding on and control the country’s policy can make for a leaner state and lower debt. An EU-wide referendum on euro bonds,...
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Reinforce the European Parliament, not the Commission
With what will likely be the automatic appointment of the next European Commission President, the result of May 2014 European elections should endow the Brussels executive with greater legitimacy. But is this desirable, wonders a Swedish columnist. Annika...
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A new life for your old age
Enjoying your retirement under a tropical sun on the other side of the world is no longer the preserve only of western Europe’s wealthy elite. Increasing numbers of Czech pensioners are abandoning their homeland in order to “wipe out the winter." ( Štěpánka...
Petition against Romanians and Bulgarians is creating a buzz
”More than 120,000 Britons have signed an online petition asking Prime Minister David Cameron to do something to prevent a mass immigration of Romanians and Bulgarians", reports Gândul , ahead of the 2014 deadline when restrictions on labour market access...
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Slovakia: A sigh for Košice
Košice this year shares with Marseille the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC). An acronym that Slovaks shorten to "Ehmk" and which sounds more like a sigh than a top class cultural event, notes a Slovak music critic. Juraj Kušnierik ‘I love European...
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Germany: Boomtime for Hitler
Released in the autumn of 2012, ahead of the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's coming to power, "Er ist wieder da" ("He's Back") by German writer Timur Vermes starts off with the dictator’s return to Berlin in the summer of 2011. The book has soared...
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Contemporary art: Paintbrush factory brightens Cluj-Napoca
Located in a former factory in Cluj, the Transylvanian capital, a contemporary art centre managed by several galleries and artists' collectives is trying to break into the European art scene. Dan Gheorghe On a street lined with cold buildings, institutions...