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Tempted your Taste-buds with Tapas

Pimsleur Approach • May 9, 2012 • Entertainment, Food & Wine • Comments (0)

Manchego cheese dripping in fresh olive oil. Russian salad mixed with sliced of pork roasted in the oven. Pan-fried juicy prawns smothered in oil and garlic. Is your mouth watering yet? These are just some of the succulent bite-sized treats you can expect to find when you sit down to tapas in a traditional Spanish bodega. From very [...]

Our Top 10 Czech Idioms

Pimsleur Approach • May 8, 2012 • Entertainment, Language Learning • Comments (0)

Every language on earth boasts a rich variety of idioms – and Czech is no exception. In fact, it has some of the most unusual and inventive idioms of any language. As proof, here are just ten of our favorites… 1. ‘Chodit kolem horké kaše’ In the Czech language, ‘kaše’ can mean any food of [...]

Words We Wish Existed in English

Pimsleur Approach • May 7, 2012 • Entertainment, Foreign Language, Language Learning, Traditions • Comments (1)

It’s well-known that English boasts more distinct words than any other language (academics claim it has anywhere between 250,000 and 750,000), and yet there are still many thoughts that the world’s most widely-spoken tongue can’t adequately express. For those times that English isn’t quite up to the job, it helps to be able to fill [...]

April’s Top Travel Links

Pimsleur Approach • April 27, 2012 • Entertainment, Global, Travel tips • Comments (0)

This month’s round-up includes funny place names, Sasquatch hunting and Czech beer fests Videos As the landscape that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, England’s Dartmoor National Park is one of the most bleakly beautiful places on earth. Here’s a short promo about the place. Taking ‘intrepid’ to new heights this group [...]

Folk Tales of Russia

Pimsleur Approach • April 23, 2012 • Entertainment, Foreign Literature, Language Learning, Russian, Traditions • Comments (0)

So important were folk tales to Russian culture for centuries, that when the tales began to appear in print in the 16th century, they were taken as historical fact. Until the end of the 18thcentury, people of all levels of Russian life enjoyed hearing folk tales. Though later viewed as mere entertainment for the lower [...]