What is the Best Way to Learn a Foreign Language? - Learning any language is going to be difficult no matter how motivated you are. So what is the best way to keep you up and motivated when you learn a new language?
Things to Consider in Language Translation - An Example of English to Hebrew Translation - When a company decides to translate its content to meet the demands of the business, it adds a personal touch and aids the end user to read and interpret the product/courseware in his/her own way. A linguist/translator has to deal with diverse challenges of translating from one language to an entirely different language while remaining faithful to the original document conveying the intention of the original and complying with the grammatical and syntactical rules of the target language.
Learn Spanish With DVD's and Other Multimedia Resources - I can still remember back in 1987 when I started teaching. The learning material we used consisted mainly of a textbook, a workbook and the odd listening exercise. Videos as language learning aids were scarce and on VHS tape. The CD was gaining ground over the LP and the DVD was probably still an idea in the back of someone's mind.
The Language of Jesus - Aramaic appeared in the 10th century BCE and by the 5th century, it had become the major language in the Near East, spoken and written from Egypt to India. In Eretz Israel, Hebrew was still spoken in a late dialect which would survive until approximately the end of the 2nd century CE. However, the language that was spoken by most of the population was a dialect of Aramaic known as Western Aramaic.