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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Wonderful Atmosphere at The Junior Language Challenge Final 2017
Wonderful atmosphere and heart-warming stories at the Junior Language Challenge final 2017 A total of 32 children battled it out at…
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Blog: Who would you like to say ‘Thank you’ to?
Our word of the month for the #LanguageDare is ‘Thank you’ (as all of you who have bravely posted your…
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Blog: European Day of Languages
26th September is European Day of Languages, and in honour of this special day we thought we’d have a look…
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Blog: The problem of translating – does it ever end?
Last week, we talked about the problem of translating certain words and concepts into other languages (if you missed last…
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The Problem of Translating – Where Do We Start…?
Here at uTalk, we’re five years into our epic project to localise our app in over 200 languages. Lovers of…
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Blog: Meet our Project Manager – Adi
In this third week of ‘Meet our uTalkers’, I’d like to introduce you to Aditya (or Adi for short ),…