The Language Learning Specialists
On September 9th 2015 the Queen became Britain’s longest serving monarch – and I like to think she shares this reputation with me, as I am the longest serving employee of EuroTalk, having joined at the very beginning in the days when our only product was an interactive version of “Asterix the Gaul”. My work here has … Read more
👋👇👌 – Hi, are you okay? 👍☺️ – I’m good thanks! 👏 – yay! Or something like that. Welcome to the wonderful language that is emojis 😁 And before you express concern that we are confused about what is a language and what is not, hey. Your entire screen staring back up at you currently is composed … Read more
You may have seen on the uTalk app that you can now search for words in any of our languages by using emoji. With emoji becoming the fastest growing language in Britain, we have decided to make it our language of the week! If you’re anything like me, the most frequent way you choose to … Read more
We hope you’ve enjoyed our Esperanto week! If we’ve convinced you to give the language a try, you might find this handy beginner’s guide a good place to start… Please feel free to share it with anyone you think might be interested. And for more information about Esperanto, visit edukado.net, a site run by linguist … Read more
Everyone knows the key to language learning is immersion, but upping sticks and moving to the country where your language originates from is a huge commitment and not always possible. However. There are a few things you can do to help your learning along. Watching films (with or without subtitles, depending on how brave you … Read more
‘Two beers, please’ is perhaps one of the most useful phrases you can learn at the start of your language-learning journey (and, incidentally, one of the first items you learn with uTalk Essentials). You’ve made it to the country, you’ve struggled with buses from the airport and fought with taxi drivers over the fare. Now … Read more
We’d like to wish all the dads out there a Happy Father’s Day! To mark the occasion, here’s how to say ‘father’ in 50 languages… If we missed the language you’re learning, you can probably find it in uTalk, which includes 120. Or let us know which language you’re looking for – chances are we’re working on it! 🙂 … Read more
How well do you know your world monuments? Let’s find out! Here are 15 landmarks from around the world… can you identify them? We need either the country or the city for each, or for bonus points, the name of the monument. (Okay, maybe not actual bonus points – but we’ll be really impressed.) If you’d … Read more
Have you ever wondered how different languages in the world are related to each other? Some of the answers may be surprising… Did you know, for example, that the Finnish language isn’t directly related to Danish or Norwegian? It’s actually a Uralic language, in the same family as Hungarian and Estonian, whereas the others are North … Read more
I’m a Morrisons kind of girl. And when I look longingly into my box of Yorkshire Tea and see nothing but tealeaf dust, I miss it. I miss a store layout I recognise. I miss being able to identify what things are without imaginative guess work and Google Translate. But most of all, I miss … Read more