
How to Learn Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic is experiencing a revival - here's how you can learn the language, with resources and tips on how to start.
Scottish Gaelic is experiencing a revival - here's how you can learn the language, with resources and tips on how to start.
There are an estimated 350,000 Icelandic speakers in the world, largely comprised by the 323,000-odd people that live in the country of Iceland. Around as many people live in Iceland as live in Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland. Doing the maths, just 0.005% of the seven billion people on this globe speak Icelandic. […]
Spanish songs to help you learn vocab and practice grammar while you have fun and sing along!
Every country has its own drinking traditions. Now you'll be able to say "cheers" everywhere you go. But beware: don't always clink glasses.
Improve your German skills with these unmissable German language movies.
Have you ever wondered what other countries think of you? This post shares some interesting perspectives on that!
What is it like to live in Bali? This article describes the style of life, the food, and the crazy traffic rules on this tropical island.
While I usually blog about language learning, I know a lot of you enjoy my travel and cultural updates as much or more. I’ve been travelling the world since 2003, but even forgetting the time involved, I have lived in twenty three countries (and counting); that’s lived as in, spent at least a month (usually […]
After leaving Cairo, the first stop on my Egyptian travels was Aswan, the furthest south in the country where you can find a major settled area, and where the Egyptian part of the Nile begins after Lake “Nasser” and the High Dam.
By far, the most interesting part of my time there was discovering things about the ethnic group known as the Nubians, which at one point in history were able to overpower the Pharaohs of Egypt, but have had an unfortunate history of displacement and migration, especially in the last century.
To share that story, I let Gasser M. Anwar, a Nubian working in the tourist industry, take the microphone to share his perspective on it all with us. With subtitles in English and Arabic as always!
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