Pumpkins have been grown throughout North America for 5000 years. In 1584, after French explorer Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence region of North America, he reported finding what he called “gross melons.” This, when translated to English, was called...
Halloween. The annual holiday celebrated on October 31. Remember how we used to get all excited about it when we were little kids. Dress up as monsters, or ghosts. Then go to houses for trick-or-treating and collect candies from adults. Now that people are starting to...
Football is one of those sports that is famous worldwide and is played in all corners of the world. The premise of the game, which is to kick an object (a ball, in this case) with your foot is so instinctive to us that even our ancestors used to do it ages ago! When...
The last four decades have seen a boom in the hotel and tourism industry. Ever since flying became a better alternative to traveling by train or ship, the tourism sector has grown exponentially. This is proved by the fact that, in the past few decades, several big...
Mistakes are an unavoidable part of human life. There is not a single person on this planet who can claim to be perfect and free of making any kind of mistake. When it comes to speaking a foreign language, we tend to make mistakes, and mistakes are an essential part...
German is often said to be the most difficult language to learn for people. Accentuated by a harsh dialect and long words, people normally conform to this opinion. However, ask a native German about their language, and they would swear that it is full of beautiful and...
The question If you were ever lucky enough to have visited a foreign country for your vacation, chances are you had to hire a translator from a local translator agency to help you get along with the locals. And all the while you might have thought to yourself “How is...
A prelude I’ll let you in on a secret: not everyone in the world watches movies in English. I know, shocking right? But that’s not to say we haven’t produced a few (thousand) spectacular hits along the way, hits that people in other countries want to see and would pay...
Sabemos que el día 12 de octubre es festivo en el territorio español, pero ¿sabes realmente qué se celebra? Pues bien, resulta que el 12 de octubre de 1492, la expedición liderada por Cristóbal Colón llegó a la isla de Guaraní, situada exactamente en el archipiélago...
In modern life, with all the advancement in technology and development, people have various things to pass the time with. Before this life used to be much simpler. Reading used to be the most popular and best means of self-education and at many times entertainment....