Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
France has filed two complaints against the EU for using too much English during recruitment processes. Focusing on two so-called recruitment competition “notices” in 2022 and […]
Since the advent of the smartphone learning app in the mid noughties, people all over the world have been downloading and using apps like Babbel, Rosetta […]
The Portuguese language is one of the most widespread languages in the world, with over 265 million speakers on all continents, as well as the most […]
How many languages do you speak? Speaking more than just one language certainly comes in handy nowadays, regardless of where you live in the world. Whether […]
What is the best age to learn how to read? This is a question that, among other factors, depends on children’s acquired abilities and maturity. Rushing […]
Queens, New York, is the most diverse populous borough in the United States, and indeed in the world. A few years ago, the districts’ officials adopted […]
Every year Google publishes some of the most popular searches of the year and 2022 was no exception. Called “Year in Search”, the 2022 dashboard shows […]
Education First (EF) has released its 2022 English Proficiency Index revealing that nine out of the top ten countries with very high proficiency in English are […]
Being part of the Royal Family comes with many responsibilities. Among those, speaking at least one other language besides English is mandatory, from the late Queen […]
Quebec French, also called Québécois French or simply Québécois, has sometimes been mocked for its different pronunciation and even vocabulary. Being called rudimentary or not proper, […]
Languages such as the Sami language, Gaelic, Cornish, Basque and Galician have their own space in the IndyLan app, a project that was born with the […]
Speaking more than one language has clear advantages but mixing them all is not unusual. Researchers are studying the impact of speaking two or more languages […]
Research by the Australian National University (ANU) has found that of the world’s 7,000 recognized languages, around half are currently endangered. 1,500 are particularly at risk. […]
If you listen to them, both the Russian and Ukrainian languages sound somewhat similar. However, they have several differences. Ukrainian and Russian belong to the same […]