Pure and simple?
Recently, Alex wrote about the way languages borrow words from each other. She pointed out that in English, we’re always…
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How the scripts hit the streets
I quite like the way that the iconography of foreign languages and exotic scripts happily manages to pervade our popular…
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Do you know who you’re talking to?
Our post today is by Izabella Klein, who’s been working with us to translate our maths apps into Brazilian Portuguese. Izabella’s…
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Something Borrowed: when one language just isn’t enough
After reading Konstantia’s post a few months ago about how many of our everyday words come from Greek, I started…
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What’s the hardest language to learn?
I remember the first day of my Hispanic Studies degree, when our head of department brought us all down to…