Keep Your Herr On: A Beginner’s Guide to German
Here’s the five Gut and Wurst things you need to know about the language: Lots of similar words: Around 40%…
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Working Against the Clock
It’s not a wind-up if someone in Rwanda, Africa looks at a clock face reading seven o’clock and tells you…
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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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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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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…
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Don’t get in a tangle over telling the time in Swahili!
This week, our fabulous JLC finalists have started learning their third language before the final competition in October. Having flourished…
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Saving the Cornish language: Kernewek Fights Back!
Kernewek in Kernow When I was back home the other week, I was surprised to see the Cornish language supporters out…
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Overcoming Anxiety When Speaking a Foreign Language in Public
Thanks to guest blogger Eve Pearce, who’s written today’s really helpful article about something every language learner has had to…
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Beginner’s Guide to Latin
Last week, Latin became the 133rd language to be added to uTalk, our app for iPhone and iPad. (Don’t have…