Visit London
London is the capital city of England and Great Britain. It has a population of 8.63 million inhabitants. This city was founded by the Romans around 50 d.C., who named it Londinium. The city blends the old and the new; from Victorian townhouses to futuristic skyscrapers. It’s very rich in history and culture, showing nowadays […]
Are you good at languages?
Alex Rawlings is a language teacher and polyglot from London. At the age of 23 he can already speak eleven languages; English, Greek, Russian, Catalan, German, Spanish, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew and Italian. When he was a child her mother used to speak to him in Greek and French. He used to visit her mother’s […]
The evolution of the English language
Here’s a post about the evolution of the English language explained in 25 maps. It’s an excellent work made by Libby Nelson. He shows the evolution of the language from the Indo-European languages to modern dialects. It talks about how the English language started when the Angles, Saxons and Jutes moved to the UK and […]