Would you like to do something new and different this year? We have an idea: choose a new language and culture that somehow fascinates you. Make it a hobby that you’ll enjoy and want to spend time on. You can even overdo it a bit in the beginning: search information about the country of your choice, listen to local music and watch movies produced in the country. As your knowledge and skills build up, you will realize how excited you…
It is obvious that learning a second language makes many things easier – traveling, surfing the internet and finding a good job are just a few examples. But did you know that learning languages also improves your intelligence, memory and concentration? Generally, the earlier you start learning a language, the better, but even adults who learn a second language will benefit from it greatly. Here is how learning a new language changes your brain – at any age: People who speak…
Did you know that the Swedish language has five different noun classes? In addition to knowing the correct article (en or ett), it is important to know to which class a noun belongs in order to be able to decline it correctly. For example, if you know that the word en skola (school) belongs to declination class 1, you will also know that its indefinite plural is skolor. In the exercises, we have marked the noun class for each noun…
When you study with WordDive, you take steps towards mastering a language by learning study items. For example, the word apple is the core of one study item. You learn how to pronounce and spell “apple”, but you also learn its meaning, as well as the context in which it can be used, when you read and listen to the example sentence. The process of learning a study item will take you through different stages. We call these stages the…
After the great success of WordDive’s English, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish grammar pages, we have good news for our Russian language enthusiasts. WordDive’s new free-to-use Russian grammar guide is here. Don’t let the Cyrillic alphabet scare you. Once you master it, you will find that a significant part of the Russian vocabulary is shared with other European languages. WordDive provides you a special course to learn the Cyrillic alphabet: Getting Started with Russian. Additionally, this course teaches you 100 useful words in…
”I use the saved time for group work and discussions.” The Finnish expat Hannu Arvio from Barcelona has been teaching Finnish to Spaniards for about 12 years. “I have lived in Spain for 20 years. I used to work as a correspondent for a Finnish radio station, but for the last five years I have focused on educational and marketing activities of the private language school that I founded with three partners.” Institut Nórdic, the private school led by Arvio…