Postcolonialism is a critical discourse inscribed in the current of postmodernity, that emerged as a critical challenge to the cultural inheritance of European colonial and imperial rule. Initially, postcolonialism was born after decolonisation in the... (read more)

Freddie Mercury, the singer of famous rock band Queen, was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (which now belongs to Tanzania) to a Parsi family that... (read more)

The preterite tense is pretty much similar to the past simple in English. That is to say, it is equivalent to the verbs used in English that end in -ed in its regular forms (stopped, accepted, alllowed), or in an iregular ending as in ate, went, came,... (read more)

Bashar el-Assad belongs to the Alawi religious group which is a branch of the Shia-muslim religious group. For years they were a marginalised group in a Sunni-dominated Syria until French colonial rule pushed members this minority into government positions.... (read more)

Marc Bolan was an influential British glam pop singer and leader of the powerfully influential pop band T-Rex. Marc Bolan died on September 16... (read more)

In Spanish, there are two main groups of verbs, indicativo and subjuntivo. It's very simple. In order to understand this, imagine I am holding two hands, one in each hand. In the left bag I am going to put the "Indicativo" tenses, that is, the present... (read more)

Catalan language is spoken by around 9 million people in Catalonia, Valencia, northern France, the Balearic islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Eivissa and Formentera) and in l'Alguer. Although you can of course "survive" in Catalonia speaking Spanish, Catalan... (read more)

According to the Generalitat de Catalunya (the Catalan government), Catalan language is spoken by an estimate of 9.118.882 speakers although around 11 million people actually understand the language. The figure includes speakers from the whole Catalan... (read more)

Orality is the verbal art of peoples who have not developed written communication as such although the difference between the oral and the written is not as sharply marked as traditionally believed, as renown anthropologist Tim Ingold has revealed in... (read more)