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Hollywood has a really bad habit of remaking films from the past. From 2016-2020 there are plans to either remake or reboot 136 films. The spectrum of these films range from a remake of the 1930’s classic “All Quiet of the Western Front”, to a remake of the 80’s television series “Baywatch”.  These films only […]

We have mentioned the importance of language many times on this blog. We have spoken about how the relationship between language and thought is so intricate and complex that you cannot conceivably have one without the other and we have also discussed how music and language are one in the same. However, in this blog

The idea of commanding a machine with your voice has been a dream for many ever since the concept had been introduced into science fiction in the 1950s/1960s. A door that opens with just a single word, a radio that’ll play whatever you tell it; this immense control with just your voice was the subject

I think writing is wonderful. It is a fantastic tool to express complex ideas, thoughts and emotions to each other. But with writing, there comes grammar. The nitty-gritty rules you must follow while writing. I find learning about these rules rather tedious simply because of the sheer quantity of them. Sometimes you might even forget

Nowadays, we are all aware of the importance of Content Marketing and the benefits from its use. It can coax in new clients while helping you keep your relationships with your the ones you still have. Building a content marketing campaign is not an easy case though, especially when it is aimed at an international

We are all aware that language is not only essential to specialised disciplines such as linguistics and translation but is, in all its forms, at the core of human experience and civilisation. It is such an integral, natural part of our cultures and social lives that it may be worth stopping for a minute, not

The world we live in is getting somewhat smaller globally. As a result, culturally mixed families are increasingly common, as well as people starting a family abroad. This trend implies that many children are being raised as bilinguals or even tri-linguals sometimes! It is estimated that there are as many bilingual children as monolingual ones

Music is very complex. It conveys emotion, it is used to communicate an idea, and it follows many rules. It often takes a musician four or five years before they actually fully grasp their instrument; it could be ten or fifteen before they master them. If you think that this sounds familiar, then you are

Language has always been a very powerful tool to exert influence, strength, power. It is important to perform many activities and it is certainly crucial to politics: no political activity can be performed without language. Since today we talk about global politics, mainly conducted at a supranational level, and therefore in multicultural and multilingual contexts,