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How to make yourself more competitive in the job market: 5 tips
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Having a good education isn’t enough to land you your dream job in today’s competitive job market – you need the right mix of education, experience an...

The surprising reason everyone should live abroad at least once
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The opportunities for travel are great, the new experiences you have are fun, the people you meet are inspiring, and you may even end up furthering yo...

EF Talks: Flavio on how investing in his language skills changed his life and career
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The myth that learning a new language – or investing in improving an existing one – is only worthwhile for children has finally been busted, but many ...

Why learn French
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French is beautiful. It makes pastries like croissants and pain au chocolat sound like drops of heaven. It makes the most basic objects sound incredib...

How to convince your parents to let you study abroad
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Here’s the good news: Studying abroad is the ultimate investment in your future. And here’s the not-so-good news: It’s an investment that happens far ...

Summer’s over, what now? 5 ways to make the most of fall
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The temperature drops, the tan lines start fading and we return to reality by heading back to school or our job. But just because the long, sunny days...

Learning a language is the key to an international future
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The benefits of expanding your child’s (or your own)  linguistic horizons go beyond the benefits of learning to communicate in a new language, and eve...

Why learn Arabic
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One of the worlds most widely-spoken languages, though not often taught in schools outside of the Middle East, we’ve picked out top ten reasons why yo...

EF Insights: 4 surprising things about how we learn languages
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There is a lot of received wisdom about learning a foreign language: That you have to start young, that older learners struggle and that there is a li...

How to set your child up for career success
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Every parent hopes their child will succeed in life. The type of success they wish for varies, but, in addition to becoming kind, engaged and producti...

10 reasons why studying a language abroad is better than at home
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It’s one thing to learn the theory of a language and study vocab from a textbook at home, but it’s an entirely different thing to move abroad and spen...

How to raise bilingual children: 5 methods
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The numerous cognitive, academic and social benefits of learning foreign languages have encouraged parents across the world to look for tips on how to...