A Brief and Interesting History of Hebrew
Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.
Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.
Mandarin Chinese was my sixth language to learn to fluency. Here are my favourite resources that I used, all of which are the best today. Most of them are free or cheap!
The story of the Zabaleen – “Garbage People” who have for generations been the informal backbone of Cairo’s waste management.
The best resources we used to get good in beginner Hebrew fast, all of them cheap (and some free).
Lingvist is a fun app that teaches you sentences by getting you to put in the missing word. However, we wouldn’t recommend it for serious language study.
Examining how hard Korean is for English speakers. Quite hard! Don’t be fooled by the phonetic alphabet.
An complete guide to Arabic coffee, including the definition of “Arabic coffee”, where to drink Arabic coffee in Egypt and the Middle East, how to make Arabic coffee at home, and an analysis of Arabic vs Turkish coffee. By obsessive coffee lovers.
They’re both Semitic languages… but how similar are they? After learning to speak Arabic (and decent Hebrew) I try to answer this question in an easy-to-understand way.
We learned to speak Egyptian Arabic in 60 days. See the video evidence, read how we did it and what we learned for our future challenges.
The story of how we nearly ended up living on a beachfront paradise in exchange for management skills.