BY: ELIJAH BASSETT Canada is officially bilingual, but how many of its citizens can say the same? A government program, Explore, is trying to increase that number by giving university students a $2,200 bursary (and, often, extra spending money) to…
How using Tinder while travelling completely revolutionized my epic backpacking adventure
BY: ADAM THRUSH This year, I decided to make Tinder my travel buddy while I backpack solo across Mexico, Central, and South America. Testing the hypothesis that, together, two great things – tinder and traveling – can create something even…
Will an in-ear translator really create a world without language barriers?
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Travelling overseas with my family used to mean packing my pocket dictionary and studying phrases on the airplane (after looking up curse words, of course). After flipping back and forth through the pages and receiving a…
The 7 secrets on how to become fluent in ANY language in as little as 3 months
BY: JONATHAN MOSS You just booked the trip of a lifetime, and now you’re wondering how you can become fluent in a foreign language in only a few months? With so little time, the question then becomes how do we…
This traveller has learnt to speak seven different languages by talking to locals of the places he visits
BY: ZOE MELNYK There are a million excuses to avoid learning another language – you’re too old, classes are too expensive, you don’t have time. The list goes on, but not anymore. Irish nomad Benny Lewis has untapped the key…
This is why being bilingual changes your personality for the better
BY: ALEKSANDRA TARABIC So goes the Czech proverb, “learn a new language and get a new soul.” As Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist, maintained in the 1920s, it could be said that each language holds a worldview that its…