The US of A: A Multilingual Nation

There have been recent studies showing that the Spanish language has become the most important and most spoken language in the United States aside from English. According to the findings,
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The Changing Fame of Colors

While it’s widely known that different languages divide the chromatic spectrum in different ways and that colors evoke different ideas for different cultures, I’d like to focus on a few
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The Fear of the Alien

For many of us, contact with a culture that is different from our own can be rather intimidating –  whether we like to admit it or not. This is only
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Why Does Music Give Us Chills?

This blog talks about many things: languages, translations, cultures, etc., but one thing we hardly ever explore here is music. One cannot deny that music is in fact, a beautiful
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New Year’s Eve Around the World

With the holidays coming to close this week, it’s interesting to see how different cultures and religions celebrated these special times.  Around the world, countries from all over partook in
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