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TALK Boston’s downtown location opened in March, 2014.  Located in the Financial District in Boston’s historic heart, the school has drawn international students from all over the world, [...]

Aventura is a city just north of Miami.  Its gleaming modern high rise residences which line the ocean front and waterways inland give this new planned city an air of glamor and opulence.  The [...]

Labor Day in America is celebrated on the first Monday of the month of September. The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882, Tuesday September 5th, to honor and recognize the contributions by [...]

A cliche is defined as such: cli·ché noun a phrase or expression that has been used so often that it is no longer original or interesting, something that is so commonly used in books, stories, [...]

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 [...]