One of the things that French learners struggle with the most is the language's complicated and detailed grammar rules - so we're launching a new series, offering a few tips and tricks to help on your ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching nouns Stage 1: Ordering tapas. Grammar Tip: Plurals Episode 2: ¿Un amigo?: Learn to order at a café: Saying 'a, an': un, una (introduction to masculine ...

Bon Appétit sees four British students go trolley-to-trolley in a Parisian supermarket, all with the aim of improving their knowledge of French nouns. Split into two teams, this film sees the students ...

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that, in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. ‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Many languages give gender to their nouns, but not English, though that was not always the case. Until about the 1200s, English ...