Yes, the Whole World Really Does Drink ‘Coffee’—Except Ethiopians and Armenians!
Happy Cappuccino Day! In today’s post, uTalk’s guest blogger Brian investigates the many different ways of saying ‘coffee’—and where the…
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What Colour is This?
This colour hasn’t got an exact name in English but it has in Japanese – it’s called mizu which translates as…
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10 Famous Faces Who Speak Other Languages
We’ve posted previously about movie and sport stars who speak other languages. But it turns out they’re not the only famous…
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‘Something I’ll always be very proud of’: Shane’s JLC story
Shane came in 3rd in The Junior Language Challenge in 2014 and is now in year 7 studying German and Latin….
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Are you learning an endangered language?
We’re now into the third week of our uTalk Challenge! Over 350 people are taking part and over 40 languages…
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What languages mean to me
Interview with Alexandra Turner – translator, writer, editor Alex left her London life a few months ago to go and…
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Emoji: The New Universal Language?
👋👇👌 – Hi, are you okay? 👍☺️ – I’m good thanks! 👏 – yay! Or something like that. Welcome to the wonderful…
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Language of the Week: Emoji
You may have seen on the uTalk app that you can now search for words in any of our languages…
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Are you ever too old to learn a language?
As a small child, I was practically a real-life Harry Potter. Without the magic. Or the mean Aunt and Uncle….
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Interesting idioms from around the world
No matter what language you’re learning, at some point you’ll probably come across idioms. These phrases, on the surface, seem…