The Travelling Potato
The everyday potato has anything but an everyday past, notching up thousands of miles – and dozens of names –…
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Back to the Future with Ancient Greek
Learn Ancient Greek as it was spoken more than 2,500 years ago with the newest addition to the uTalk language…
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Fall In and Out of Fashion
Both the US and Britain took a leaf out of the same book back in the 17th century when it…
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Why Does “Mama” Mean “Mother” in Almost Every Language on Earth?
Linguist Brian Loo Soon Hua helps answer the question. Walk along the streets of Beijing and listen carefully to the…
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Beware of German Gifts!
English speakers should be wary of receiving ein Gift from a German! That’s because Gift just happens to be the…
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The Story of Tea
Why every language in the world uses the same two words for “tea” and why in fact, that assumption is…
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The Origins of the name “Canada”
By our multi-lingual friend Brian Loo Soon Hua aka uTalk’s Language Guru Did you know that Canada was almost…
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Words to live by
Malaysian steamed buns – what a passer-by might offer you in a rural village. Brian, who grew up in…
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What’s the buzz? 🐝
New languages and a faster app are waiting for you when you update to uTalk 2.08. Languages added in…
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50+ Fascinating Language Facts You Didn’t Know
This week we’re really lucky to have a guest post by the team at TakeLessons. Approximately one language dies every…