While my first post about Japanese words with no English translation was centered around words that have to do with work, this second part takes a loo...
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.”– Charles VSpanish is a passionate language that is reflected in the ...
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...
There are an estimated 7,000 languages in the world, from Mandarin Chinese spoken by nearly a billion people natively, to over 200 artificial language...
How many languages do you think there are in the world? 1000? 3000? 5371? You’re getting closer. According to the 2009 catalogue by Ethnologue, there ...
Part of the magic of learning a new language lies within discovering peculiar and unique new words. No matter how elaborate the situation at hand may ...
It’s well-documented that children with all their intrinsic learning capabilities have a headstart on the rest of us, so it’s only natural to bemoan t...
There are over 6900 distinct languages in the world today, but which ones are the most beautiful of them all? Depending on your mother tongue, the lan...
Language skills can be the career gift that keeps on giving: Being able to speak, explain, and negotiate in another language makes you more employable...
One of the most beautiful features of languages is that they give us the vocabulary to express ourselves. Gone are the days when we just had to make g...
Learning a new language is no easy task. It calls for commitment, determination and motivation. But some languages are just easier to learn than other...
Almost everyone can name one language they want to learn – Japanese is on my bucket list. But almost everyone has myriad excuses why they are not yet ...
