Browsing All posts tagged under »portuguese«

App Review: Scrabble and Angry Words (or how to use word games to increase your vocabulary)

March 15, 2012

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Word games are a great way to stretch your linguistic muscles and learn new vocabulary. You can, of course, buy word searches in magazine format, or play a solitaire game of Scrabble on a traditional board. But if you have a smartphone or a tablet, these days there are many other options. I was excited to find […]

Language by coolness and employability factor (via the Huffington Post)

September 20, 2011

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Portuguese comes out the winner in this great Huffington Post piece, Dr. Ali Binazir: The Best Languages to Learn in College. Here’s what he had to say about French and Spanish, and I can’t fault him. (Bonus points for daring to speak the unspeakable – that French pop is cool – and for mentioning Jacques Brel, […]