Country of the Blind

Photo by an0nym0n0us So I sold my old car this weekend (not the one you see at the top of this post). With 185,000 miles, it was still in fa...

Interesting perspective from Kató Lomb, Hungarian polyglot 1909-2003. Her book Polyglot: How I learn languages includes interestin g anecdo...

Photo by alazaat So I've embarked on the study of a new language: Persian, a.k.a. Farsi. I intend henceforth to report on my progress at...

So I'm waiting for a table at P.F. Chang's. At one end of the hostess station is a stack of paper menus--at the other end is a samp...

You can't be Jason Bourne without mastering a bunch of languages. During the course of the series we get to see him speak French, Swiss...

It was some five months ago that I announced in this forum the inception of my formal lip-reading training, namely using the Read My Lips! D...