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Will Duo, the aggressive avian mascot of Duolingo, the world’s most popular language-learning app, be soon hitting stages globally in a masterful combination of musical theatre, ice skating, and linguistic pedagogy? Erm… no. This year’s prize for the best April Fools’ corporate campaign goes to Duolingo for their fake ice skating musical, Duolingo on Ice. Not only was the advert so convincing that it had most of the Euronews Culture team under the impression it was real, but when we found out it wasn’t, we wished it was. Everything you need to know about the upcoming Tom Holland 'Romeo & Julie...
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Thinking of heading to France for Easter or in the near future for a holiday? While you may find that the French are surprisingly accommodating when it comes to helping out in English, despite their reputation for being stuck up, there are still regional expressions that pop up all too frequently – and will leave you scratching your head. Fear not, help is at hand. According to a recent survey%2C%20chaber%20(regarder).) examining the use of regional languages, carried out by online language learning website Preply, even the French are somewhat bemused by the sheer amount of different dialects ...
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People who speak more than five languages, known as polyglots, light up in the “language network” of the brain when they listen to languages that they speak, with stronger responses to the ones they are most proficient in. However, according to a new study, when listening to their native tongues, the brain’s activity was either similar or dropped off compared to non-native languages they were fluent in. “Something makes it a little bit easier to process - maybe it’s that you’ve spent more time using that language - and you get a dip in activity for the native language compared to other languag...
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What is the accent you’re most attracted to? A gorgeous Irish lilt? A rakish Spanish inflexion? The King’s English, perhaps? Well, according to language learning platform Babbel, it’s official: French is no longer the world's sexiest accent. That bold statement will come as a disappointment to many, especially since Babbel previously polled more than 15,000 people in 2017, a group who named French the “sexiest accent”. So, who has dethroned la belle langue française? Well, 6,000 people from the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany, as well as the US, were asked to rate which languages are perc...
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