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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 [...]

Why “5 de Mayo” Is Huge in the U.S

Pimsleur Approach • May 4, 2012 • Language Learning, Traditions • Comments (0)

Get your piñatas, sombreros, and that mariachi going and prepare to devour the best tacos you’ve ever tasted! “5 de Mayo” is about to happen and, like every year, the Hispanic community is ready to celebrate. However, don’t get so excited if you’re actually in Mexico, because there 5 de mayo is not such a [...]

A Dip Into Spanish Literature

Pimsleur Approach • May 3, 2012 • Foreign Literature, Language Learning, Spanish • Comments (0)

Without Spain the modern day novel might not exist. Not that the Spanish invented writing or books, but one of the first novelists was Spanish. Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish author and between 1605 and 1619 he published two volumes of Don Quixote, one of the world’s most influential novels. The novel’s full title [...]