Pangeanic Blog

The Turkish language (in Turkish: Türkçe) belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. It has a very high degree of mutual intelligibility with Azerbaijani, Balkan Gagauz Turkish, Gagauz and[..]

Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, Sindhi and other ancient languages have a common denominator: they are languages written from right to left. It is said that right-to-left scripts can be indicative of how ancient the language is because of the medium of writing that was used to carve these languages on [..]

The history of the Spanish language was shaped with the rise and fall of great empires. With foundations in Vulgar Latin, Spanish emerged alongside the collapse of Rome in the Iberian Peninsula thousands of years ago. This Romance language also underwent heavy influences by the Arabic dialect spoken[..]

Is possible to boost working from home productivity? While working from home can be someone's productivity booster, it can be someone else's distracting disaster. The experience of replacing office politics with the comfort of your own hom[..]

"Bon dia! Egun on! Bo día!" are all acceptable forms of greeting in Spain; except for the fact that they derive from different languages that can be heard and seen in their respective homelands. But if you speak fluent castellano, you are well-equipped wi[..]

Do you know what are the most difficult languages for English speakers? There is scientific evidence that the brain's wiring affects the facility of learning a foreign language. This is why some people struggle to acquire a second language, while others seem to perform the task without too much ment[..]

Learning common English idioms and their usage can enrich your vocabulary and make you sound more native. These figures of speech are usually metaphorical and allow their [..]

A euphemism is a polite word or expression used to substitute a more expressive or direct one to avoid being distasteful or offensive. Common euphemisms in English are normally concerned with religion, death and sex. Examples of these euphemisms are to sleep with instead of to have sexu[..]