New name, new horizons for the language challenge
Organisers of the competition – now called The uTalk Challenge – want to spread the word about languages to even…
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Organisers of the competition – now called The uTalk Challenge – want to spread the word about languages to even…
Competitors in our uTalk Challenge Final took language learning to a whole new level with not one but two tie…
Niharika Nudurumati’s mum says her daughter put in extra hours of practice – when she was asleep! “Sometimes when she…
Languages say something about our culture and our soul, according to uTalk’s language guru (pictured). Which is why Brian Loo…
UK youngsters, who have clocked up three new languages in nine months, are now just weeks away from the…
Here’s the five Gut and Wurst things you need to know about the language: Lots of similar words: Around 40%…
It’s not a wind-up if someone in Rwanda, Africa looks at a clock face reading seven o’clock and tells you…
This colour hasn’t got an exact name in English but it has in Japanese – it’s called mizu which translates as…
Newly-wed Megan Markle touched our hearts when she called Prince Harry “my love” at a recent gala performance. But how…
The everyday potato has anything but an everyday past, notching up thousands of miles – and dozens of names –…