Reading Time: 16 minutesEveryone speaks at least one language. It’s fascinating how we learned that first language, too. Without any formal instruction, we heard it, repeated it, and found ourselves effective communicators within about seven years. And in that time, we learned what our language sounded like, too. 

Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause its origins are Greek I had a Spanish professor (who was Greek) years ago who explained that, just about any word with a “-ma” ending was a Greek word and should be treated masculine. That doesn’t mean the word in Greek was masculine, though Greek has three grammatical genders. And πρόβλημα, (provlema) is in

Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve loved learning languages for most of my life. Because I hold degrees in two languages and demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in several others, I sometimes get asked how many languages I know, or when, or how, I started learning them. Learning languages is such a passion that I’ve been known to stop anyone