“Something I always say to my students is that when you’re learning any new language, try not to think in your native language; think in the language you’re learning or speaking.” Valentinos Filippou ...

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...

I came across a little story recently about a retired Englishman who prefers not to learn the language of the country he is living in. On those few occasions when he started to learn a language, he ...

The language of the Pontic Greeks – ethnic Greeks who settled on the coast of the Turkish Black Sea – evolved completely differently to the language in their homeland. On a warm June evening, I was ...

Janet E. Blake and Iman Shafi-Beik, the two scholars from Tehran’s Shahid Behehsti University, are the two authors of the book entitled “Learning the Ancient Greek Language”. The book is a good ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For a long time now, options for learning a foreign language in the city was limited to Russian, French and German. Now, here’s your chance to learn some Greek and Latin. The ...