Did you know that, among the 10 hopeful contenders for this year’s Oscar for Best Picture, four are non-American productions? In the last few years, the Academy seems to have opened up to international productions, and we couldn’t be happier to have so many foreign Oscar nominees in the main categories. Whether due to the(…)

Oscar season is always an opportunity to discover new things to watch; especially those epic movies of the year that win despite not one member of the general public having seen them to determine whether they really are epic or not. As language lovers, we’d like to take a look at the Oscar nominees for(…)

Swedish is spoken by 8.7 million native speakers throughout the world with the large majority found in Sweden and Finland.  Believe it or not, according to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Swedish is actually one of the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn, due to its apparent similarity. All languages have things about(…)