The problem with learning anything is that you need proper motivation. A natural talent for languages will help you learn English for example, but if you don't dedicate time to studying you will never master the language. And frankly studying languages can be extremely boring. So how about if you could pick up new vocabulary by learn interesting facts about the history of words? Not enough fun? What if you could learn new vocabulary, learn interesting facts about new and old words from the girl pictured on the right?

Marina Orlova, better known as hotforwords on YouTube, is a serious student of philology, a European field of study that is something like linguistics (Nietzsche was one so don't sneeze at it), with a degree from the Russian State University of Nizhni Novgorod Region. She also happens to be really, really sexy. On her videoblog she explains the etymology and usage of words and expressions while dressed in skimpy outfits. It's actually an interesting idea and the explanations are really good (I had to force myself to watch all of them as research for this post. Some of them I had to watch 3 or 4 times! The agony!

So check out her latest entry on the origin of music:



Then check out the discussion at hotforwords vlog.

As for the etymology of her tagname, the expression "too hot for words" means someone who is too sexy to be described in words. But to be "hot for" something means you like it, it makes you excited. So she has pretty cleverly merged these two expressions to say she is excited by words, and also extremely sexy.

Boy, writing this blog is rough sometimes. I think I need to do some more research.