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Let's be real - if you've spent any time around Spanish speakers, you know soccer is kind of a big deal. Think about it - when was the last time you walked past a Spanish bar or restaurant without seeing a game on TV? Or tried following your Spanish-speaking friend's

Looking for a fun way to surprise your friends? Skip the usual "friend" and try "amigo," "صديق" (sadiq), or "친구" (chingu) instead. You see, learning to say "friend" in someone's native language may seem like a tiny detail, but it's one of those simple gestures that can light up someone's

If you are Learning Spanish and take a quick look at any list of locations around Mexico you’ll immediately notice a pattern: places like Tlatelolco and Chihuaha are not Spanish at all – they come from Nahuatl, the language of the ancient Aztecs. Clearly, we were all speaking something else

Did you know that Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world? With over 480 million native speakers across more than 20 countries, it's no surprise that the Spanish language has taken on various forms and accents. Just as English has different accents and dialects depending

When summer first starts, we all love to make ambitious claims about our goals for all the time off we will enjoy. Yet, just this month, some of us scheduled a solo study session three times – only to fall through a Wikipedia rabbit hole about something completely unrelated. Some of

Can you learn Spanish by watching TV? If the idea of mastering a completely new language while enraptured in a murder plot feels too good to be true, then worry not: turns out linguistic research is completely on board with fun alternatives to grammar drills. So before you google which

If you have been browsing our Spanish catalog lately, you may have seen a brand new category on the “Coming Soon” bar: podcasts! Podcasts are the latest addition to Lingopie’s language-learning menu. From now on, we will start releasing new podcast episodes every day to help you geek out

No matter what we are trying to learn, we can count on one fact: our brains will be looking for repeatable patterns and unspoken rules. This usually simplifies the task ahead of us, and it can be invaluable when learning a new language through TV series – we hear the words,

It’s no secret that learning a foreign language is a long-term ordeal. We have already covered how long it takes to learn Spanish from scratch – and you can use the same timeline for French, German, Italian or Portuguese. With its complex alphabet, Russian will demand a few more months