My Language Break

The journal

The part schools leave out of the brochure

Costs, paperwork, accents, homesickness and how to choose between two schools that look identical. Everything here comes from questions students have actually asked us — sorted by the language you are learning.

What’s the Difference Between Kanji and Hanzi?

Hanzi and kanji are the Chinese and Japanese pronunciations of the term 漢字 that is used in the two dialects....

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Do Chinese and Japanese Understand each other’s Language?

Sometimes when we are looking at a map of these two countries in Asia—Japan and China, we think that...

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Is Korean Worth Learning?

The Korean language is used by an estimated 75,000,000 numbers of people in North and South Korea and is...

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The Benefits and Strategies of Reading a Foreign Language

“If you want to learn a foreign language, then you should be reading in it.” By learning to read...

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Is Russian or Arabic Harder to Learn?

Trying to learn either the Russian or Arabic language isn’t a simple thing to do! Which one is harder...

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14 Of The Best Language Exchange Sites

Are you bored with reading a lot of books, dictionaries, or any other sort of things? Have even tried...

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Reading is the easy part. Going is the point.

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