’I’m too old.’ ’I would like to learn German but it’s too difficult.’ ’I’ve never been good at languages and I never will be.’ These are probably the most common excuses people make for why they can’t learn foreign languages. Age is an advantage – no matter how old you are People often think that you can only learn languages when you’re young and that age is just a burden. However, this isn’t exactly true, because the experience brought by…
Cultures and languages are constantly changing and interacting with each other. On the level of language, the interaction can be seen in loanwords, which are found in every language in the world. A loanword is a word borrowed from another language that has not been translated to the target language. It also has its own special meaning, usually not found in the target language’s own, original vocabulary. In some cases, loanwords are spelled or pronounced a bit differently in the…
