“Something I always say to my students is that when you’re learning any new language, try not to think in your native language; think in the language you’re learning or speaking.” Valentinos Filippou ...

As I struggle in Alpha Mega with my Google translate app in one hand, hovering over the instructions on a tin of Mr Muscle oven cleaner in the other, I do wonder if my Greek should be better by now.

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...