The Mandarin Chinese word for "courtyard" is "yuan zi." This daily Mandarin lesson has audio files for your pronunciation and listening practice.

Thus, I purchased Corie. With the help of a several co workers and a motorcycle push

Dong Zhi is an important festival in Chinese culture. Dong Zhi falls on the winter solstice and is a time when families get together to eat tang yuan.

Learn how to conjugate blâmer, a regular -er French verb.

Learn how to conjugate déranger, a spelling change French verb.

RAS syndrome is a humorous initialism for "Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome": the redundant use of a word that's already included in an acronym or initialism.

There are many differences between a Japanese house and one in North America. One of them is the color of the walls.

In this excerpt from his autobiography, African-American poet James Weldon Johnson recounts a visit to Salt Lake City in 1905 and his encounters with overt discrimination.

Lyrics for Jésus est né en Provence, a traditional Provençal Christmas carol.

Learn a new Spanish word each day.

Little Star is a Mandarin Chinese song about the bright twinkling stars in the night sky.

Sometimes it's obvious when someone doesn't like us. It isn't always as easy to tell, for example, in a work environment, where politeness is the key to civility (civility is tantamount to productivity). Take these steps to determine with more certainty if someone is your good acquaintance, or som

In these three paragraphs from part one of his "nonfiction novel" "In Cold Blood," Truman Capote offers a brief history and description of Garden City, Kansas. Observe how the author frequently interrupts his sentences (with parentheses) to insert factual and illustrative details

Learn a new Spanish word each day.

Different verb forms are used for positive and negative familiar commands in Spanish.

Teaching children a second language will expand their horizons and make them more culturally in-tune. Children have a much easier time learning language than adults do. It's best to teach them while they're young; they'll have an easier time retaining the information. Learning Arabic also means that

Learn how to conjugate délivrer, a regular -er French verb.