It’s Raining Cats and Dogs (and Wheelbarrows and Old Ladies)
‘It’s raining cats and dogs!’ is a common British phrase meaning that it’s raining particularly hard. There are various theories…
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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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Lost in translation: making sense of maths
Reading Nat’s post about all the fascinating linguistic differences and difficulties that she and her translators experienced when translating the…
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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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The challenges of translation
Over the last six months we’ve had our new free app uTalk translated into over 30 languages, and dealt with…
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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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Utility versus Beauty
Cristina Mateos is our Catalan intern here at EuroTalk, working on translating and recording our maths apps. In her blog…
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Beware false friends
Learning a new language is a great experience: familiarising yourself with a new culture, discovering a new way to express…
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Don’t be shy, get talking!
A recent poll has found that only one in ten British travellers learn any of the language before they visit…
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The Footballer’s Hidden Skills
‘Footballers are a bit dumb.’ This is a general assumption that has existed for as long as I can remember….