The Mandarin Chinese word for "business" is "sheng yi." This daily Mandarin lesson has audio files for your pronunciation and listening practice.

Rain refers to precipitation (falling water); reign, a period of sovereign power. Rein refers to restraint or the means by which power is exercised.

The Berber people are a group of indigenous tribes of North Africa, mostly in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya. The Berber people speak a number of dialects, most of which are mutually intelligible to one another. The Berbers predated the Arab invaders in the seventh century. Since then, many Ber

See "family slang."

Conjugating French verbs in a workbook or letter is one thing, but remembering individual verb conjugations when you're speaking is another matter entirely. Here are some tips to help you get better at conjugating French verbs.

Learn a new Japanese word every day.

What does the French word bêtise mean? How is it pronounced and used?

In English, in indefinite article is the determiner "a" or "an," which marks an unspecified count noun.

Personal description; a head-to-toe inventory of a person's physical attributes or charms.

How to use the Spanish preposition "en," which doesn't always mean "in" or "on."

The Aztec calender is composed of two different systems of day counting. The combination of the two systems creates the 52-year cycle of the Aztec calendar. The tonalpohualli, or day calendar, is composed of 260 days. This is similar to other Mesoamerican calendars, like the Mayans, Olmecs and Zapot

It's time to find out how well you can apply the guidelines for using punctuation marks correctly and effectively.

In classical rhetoric, the middle style is speech or writing that falls between the extremes of the plain style and the grand style.

The version of William Hazlitt that emerges from his essays--witty, passionate, plain speaking--continues to attract devoted readers. As Robert Louis Stevenson observed in his essay "Walking Tours," Hazlitt's "On Going a Journey" is "so good that there should be a tax l

This list of Mandarin Chinese vocabulary will teach you the names of common items found in the office. Each entry has an audio file for listening and pronunciation practice.

The commonly confused words "formally" and "formerly": answers to practice exercises.

This story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). There was once an old man named Meng who lived in the southern part of the country with his wife. One spring, Meng sowed a seed of bottle gourd in his yard.