It’s strange and ironic that higher education establishments in Britain, institutions which ostensibly exist to broaden minds ...

IN ISRAEL the @ symbol is often referred to as "strudel". Computer books often refer to @ as the "at sign". Anyone who ever made or cut a strudel would agree th@ "strudel" is @ least as appropri@e a ...

As we've discussed before in our French Grammar Tips series, the French language has some confusing prepositions. Part of the problem for English speakers is that they don't neatly translate to a ...

Idioms are words or phrases that are not meant to be understood literally. For example, if someone says they have 'cold feet', that doesn't mean their toes are actually cold. Rather, it means they are ...

Why are they so difficult? Often they aren't easy to translate, but even when there's a translation, it doesn't always apply, because English prepositions have lots of meanings and uses.

Both 'se souvenir' and 'se rappeler' are used to talk about remembering in French, but they are not used the same way ...

In order to make your writing clear, you need to use commas. As well as using them to separate out key information, or divide up different clauses, commas can also completely change the meaning of a ...