babelhut.com

I came across an interesting word in the Japanese novel I’m reading.  The word is おてんばさん (otenbasan).  It means tomboy.  It has kanji too: お転婆さん.  This makes it look like the actually word is 転婆 (tenba) with an honorific o- prefix and honorific -san suffix.
But this is not the case.  This word is actually a [...]

While celebrating my youngest son’s birthday earlier this week, I was enjoying a can of my favorite drink from México: Del Valle Néctar de Guayaba de concentrado (guava juice nectar from concentrate) when I realized I had just found the source for my next Frases en Español post! Conveniently the text on the can is [...]

Here’s a language learning tip that has worked really well for me: read children’s books.  I’m talking books intended for children aged 0-5. Even if you aren’t a beginner. Here’s why:

They are easy – This is as easy as reading material comes. Even if you are a complete beginner, if you have [...]

I recently discovered that I could switch my phone’s display language from English to Spanish, and in doing so I was blown away by the new vocabulary that I hadn’t seen elsewhere. This, along with an excellent series of posts from Ramses, has inspired me to help others by sharing what I have learned.
This is [...]

Here’s a language learning tip that has recently worked really well for me: start a translation project!
Here are the steps:

Find something in your target language that hasn’t been translated into English before. It could be a novel, a comic book, a children’s book, a movie, a TV show, a cereal box, a magazine, a [...]