Afrikaans is a Germanic language derived from Dutch-speaking settlers from Holland who inhabited the Cape Colony. It is official language of South Africa and Namibia and is also spoken in Lesotho and Botswana. With the passage of time it has acquired its own characteristics, since it has assimil...
No. Vietnam was a French colony and I lived with my family in a French environment. Even today, the buildings in Hanoi and Haïphong look French. In 2013 I went to North Vietnam to look where I had lived in 1950 when I was ten years old. Our house in Haïphong was still here,...
Teaching abroad is a fantastic way to recover your bank account after you’ve splashed out on too many beers. It’s also a great way to earn money and see the world at the same time. Being an international English teacher has, for a long time, been my back-up for when I run out ...
Long before Serena and Venus Williams soared to international fame there was Suzanne Lenglen, a French tennis player who captivated the world in the 1920s with her controversial habits that included wearing red lipstick, drinking alcohol, cursing, exposing her bare arms, and donning skirts above...
If you live in Firestone, you actually live on land purchased from a guy named Jacob Firestone. Wonder if the naming rights was part of the deal to sell. Long's Peak TSM/Chris Kelly Long's Peak French trappers originally called it "Les Deux Oreilles" which means "the Two Ears." Fortu...
First, the war in Vietnam had helped to fuel a nickel mining boom and new immigration in New Caledonia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. France wanted to monopolize profits from that boom because it regarded nickel as a strategic resource. Second, the French colonial gov- ernor, Laurent...
Vietnamese. Even more horrendous, is that the final peace plan was similar to theoriginal1954 peace accords ending the 9-year French Indochina war, but which the US refused to honor. Thus the Vietnamese suffered through 20 more years in what was ...
Over the next few attempts, they’d settle into something that was a kind of approximation, and that would be that. What made me not mind these people was that they put the mispronunciation on themselves—their demeanor suggested the fault was with them, not me or my name....
Whether you're new to Cantonese or you've been learning for a little while, there's a tonne of great information here that you're sure to find helpful! WARNING: Because the aim of this post is to be as comprehensive and helpful as possible, it's pretty long! So I've prepared a sp...
Saddam’s Iraq was governed by Ba’athists, which is to say Arab nationalists. It was predictable that the United States would purge Arab nationalists from the Iraqi state and, in creating a constitution for its post-Saddam neo-colony, build into it provisions preventing the re-emergence ...