by Conor Clyne | Mar 9, 2017 | English, Regional Linguistic Differences
Colombia – the homeland of Sofia Vergara and Shakira, with a coastline on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea is a country in both South and Central America. Named after Cristopher Columbus, Colombia has around 45 million inhabitants and Bogota as...
by Conor Clyne | Mar 2, 2017 | English, Regional Linguistic Differences
While travelling and learning an official language of a country you should also appreciate that it may not be the main language depending on the region you’re in. In this sense Spain is an interesting example. Even if Spanish is the only official language on a...
by Conor Clyne | Jan 5, 2017 | English, Regional Linguistic Differences
I love traveling to both Portugal and Spain (and Latin America, of course). Moreover, Brazil is actually my favorite country … in the world! 😀😀 I learnt Spanish while living adjacent to a Spanish-speaking barrio in Washington, DC in the US. My...
by Conor Clyne | Aug 25, 2016 | English, Regional Linguistic Differences
How different or similar are Italian and Spanish? I love traveling to both Italy and Spain (and Latin America, of course) and actually lived in Bologna, Italy where I learnt Italian. The year after learning Italian, I learnt Spanish while living adjacent to a...
by Conor Clyne | Aug 11, 2016 | English, Regional Linguistic Differences
GUEST POST FOR LANGUAGE TSAR Guest Post by Lingholic Are you confused whenever you hear a group of Pilipinos talking in what seem to be a jumbled language of sorts? What you are probably hearing is the Filipino language, the national language of the Philippines whose...
