Monthly Archive for: "August, 2015"

For TALK international students studying abroad, this is an exciting time.  You meet new people, and maybe even share your living space with a room-mate who comes from another country.  While you [...]

Also known as the City by the Bay, San Francisco holds a colorful, diverse, and intriguing atmosphere that brings students and visitors in from right across the world. With its ambiance of [...]

When you describe something by comparing it to something else, this is figurative language. the other term for it is figures of speech. Literal and figurative language differ from each other in [...]

Alliteration is a poetic technique in which the initial consonant sounds of words are repeated in close succession. To put it more simply: alliteration is when the beginning sounds of words [...]

For TALK students traveling abroad to study in the USA, you may already have a generalized idea of what you may expect of Americans as you have seen the movies, read about the celebrities, [...]

Fort Lauderdale, also known as the Venice Of America, is a coastal city which sits next to the Atlantic Ocean in Florida. The name Venice of America came about because of its large canal system [...]

Toward and towards – does it matter which word you use? Though there is a perception that the words, toward and towards, which are both prepositions, have distinctive and separate usages, [...]

TALK students who studying abroad will probably find at the start of their stay that the new culture and language is a little daunting. Let’s begin at the beginning, and that means the American [...]