by Matteo Fiorini | Jan 30, 2023 | Around the world, News
Chunjie, the first day of the Chinese Lunar calendar. When Chunjie is approaching, Chinese people are busy purchasing goods, cleaning the house, cooking traditional Chinese food, making Spring Festival couplets and hanging spring festival pictures. Spring Festival...
by Guccio | Nov 27, 2015 | Around the world
If Personality is “the sum total of all the behavioural and mental characteristics by means of which an individual is recognized as being unique”[1], then can bilinguals have two personalities, depending on the language that they’re speaking? Or are behavioural...
by Guccio | Oct 30, 2015 | Around the world
When intermittently listening to Arabic versions of Lion King songs the other day, it seemed natural to ask why we found these versions so much scarier than the original soundtracks that we know well and love. Was it perhaps because it was unfamiliar and we couldn’t...
by Paola Mirra | Nov 4, 2011 | Around the world
If you dream of your child growing up bilingual, it’s essential that you start from day one or, even better, before your baby is welcomed into the world. Did you know that the foetus is exposed to the rhythms and sounds of language before birth? In this article from...
by Paola Mirra | Nov 4, 2011 | Around the world
Taking a look at the following table, do you notice anything strange? ‘Pineapple’, the English name for the tropical plant & fruit Ananas is completely different from the rest of the languages listed in the table. According to Wikipedia, “the word ‘pineapple’ in...
by Martina Nencini | Nov 4, 2011 | Around the world
I’m not talking about the Milanese smog here or the copious amounts of tempting cheese and salamis on offer. In this article we find out why Italians fall ill more often: they simply know too much about health and anatomy for their own good. For the British on the...
