Machine Translation – Useful or Not?

With the help of AI (or artificial intelligence), machine translation is getting better and better. It’s scary how accurate the free new technology is becoming. Free, online machine translation tools, such as Google Translate, DeepL, Microsoft Translator, and Apple Translate […]

A History of English in Simple English PART 3 – Chaucer, Shakespeare, & the Printing Press

Today’s post is the final segment on a short history of the English language. In the last post, I talked about the impact of invasions from the Vikings and the Normans on the English language. In this video, I’ll share […]

A History of English in Simple English PART 1 – Celts, Romans, & Germanic Tribes

The English language has evolved (or changed) a great deal over time. It’s interesting and worth knowing a little about, so today’s post is part one of three parts all about the history of the English language. It’s a long […]

The Multi-Modality of Human Communication

Each of the world’s languages, including English, is just one part of one mode of communication, which is verbal communication. Human communication is actually multi-modal. Multi means many, and modal refers to the mode or type of communication. What are […]