Tips for Learning New Languages

A few years ago, I spent some time learning French. My method involved nothing more than using an audio course I found at Barnes and Noble. I didn’t get very far.

A Concept Without Words

If a society has words that translate to “black” and “white,” but has no words for any other colors, do the people who speak that language understand the concept of color? There were studies that originally concluded that language determines thought; if there are no words for a concept in a certain languages, its [...]