Through the spread of the Islamic Civilization, their traders, their technological achievements and the Muslim faith, a lot of Arabic words have entered foreign languages.

Babbel and Rosetta Stone are two of the most popular and well-known platforms for language learning. They are starkly different products with very different methodology.

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Here are 11 unmistakable characteristics that will determine the success or failure of any language learning endeavor.

Have you ever tried to converse with a native speaker of your target language but found that despite being able to speak pretty well you can barely catch a word of what he/she says?

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  Listening

Most of us eventually hit learning plateaus. These are times where we feel like we’re not learning much anymore and there’s a simple explanation for why it happens.

Leading up to my flight here I was getting the same reaction from almost everyone - is Egypt really safe for foreigners?

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  Immersion

Cairo is one of the best and most rewarding places in the world for language immersion but it’s easy to spend a long time here and never progress far at all.

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  Immersion

Swahili is Africa’s most spoken language with over 200 million speakers. Here are the countries where Swahili is spoken.

Today I’m going to share a few fairly random but very interesting things with you that I learned during my language immersion stay in Russia.

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  Immersion