Jonathan Del Prado

Most Greek lessons focus on ordering coffee and asking for directions. But step into any Greek household, watch a local football match, or sit in Athens traffic, and you'll hear an entirely different vocabulary. Learning Greek curse words is essential because they play a big role in the

We're living in the age of AI everything, from chatbots that help you plan dinner to algorithms that curate your morning playlist. Language learning hasn’t escaped this trend either, with countless language apps promising to revolutionize how we pick up new languages through artificial intelligence. However, let

Polish has this wonderful complexity that makes it incredibly rewarding to learn. Yet despite being spoken by over 30 million people worldwide, Polish often gets overshadowed by the usual suspects: Spanish, French, and German. Walk into any language section of a bookstore, and you’ll find dozens of Spanish courses

Learning Dutch has become incredibly accessible compared to just five or ten years ago. Back then, you were pretty much stuck with expensive language courses, dusty textbooks, or awkward conversation exchanges with strangers online. Now? You've got language apps, podcasts, YouTube channels, and my personal favorite resource of

If you think knowing English means you can roll up anywhere in the States and fit right in, Miami’s got news for you. Step off the plane in the 305 and you’ll quickly realize there’s something different happening here. In fact, linguists are closely tracking how this

If you’re learning a new language, then I bet you’ve also scrolled through lists of “proven” language learning apps, convinced that older means better. And I honestly can’t blame you because there's something comforting about choosing a platform that’s been around for years, right?

Most of us have experienced that moment when we hear a beautiful song in a foreign language or get completely hooked on a movie and think, "I need to learn this language." If Chinese grabbed your attention this way, then Taiwanese dramas on Netflix might just be your

If you've been studying Russian for a while, you've probably encountered sentences like "Я пишу ручкой" (I write with a pen) or "Мы идём с другом" (We're going with a friend). Notice how the words "ручкой" and "

When I first started learning Norwegian, I was all about being the perfect, polite language student. I drilled my “takk så mye” and “unnskyld meg” like my life depended on it. Then I watched my first Norwegian film...and boom! Suddenly, people were saying words that ABSOLUTELY weren’t in