The Language Learning Specialists
The greatest festival in China, the Lunar New Year, will begin this Saturday 10th February. On this day, the year of the Wood Dragon begins. You’re probably asking yourself, why do the Chinese name years after animals? And why is this year the year of the Wood Dragon? What’s going on? The 12 animals of … Read more
If you’ve been learning Swahili for a little while, then you’ve probably already come across at least the days of the week. But how about the months and seasons of the year? Learn some new Swahili words in this blog post, and find out where they’ve come from! Days of the week in Swahili Check … Read more
Do you know how to count to 20 in Romanian? No? Well, let’s begin! Plus, find out where all those numbers come from and which languages Romanian is most closely related to. First things first, are you up to speed with the historical reference in the name ‘Romanian’? The language – and the country where … Read more
If you’re learning Romanian, one thing you’re going to want to learn early on are the days of the week, months, and seasons. After all, they’ll help you make plans with your Romanian-speaking friends! Keep reading to learn these, as well as a host of words referring to times of day so you can really … Read more
Valentine’s day – a day for declaring your love in any way you can. But love can often be more tortured than a simple declaration. As Alfred de Musset said in his book “On ne badine pas avec l’amour”: “We are often deceived in love, often wounded and often miserable; but we love, and when … Read more
Friday 13th may be unlucky for some but for one young budding linguist it could mean holding the Junior Language Challenge 2017 trophy high with pride and winning a trip to Africa! A record number have taken part in the UK’s only national language challenge for primary school children this year. 32 finalists from all … Read more
26th September is European Day of Languages, and in honour of this special day we thought we’d have a look at some interesting facts about the European languages. Did you know that the root of many European languages can be found in the Indo-European language family, which has many subdivisions including the Italic, Celtic, Germanic … Read more
Last week, we talked about the problem of translating certain words and concepts into other languages (if you missed last week’s blog you can take a read of it here). This week we’re moving onto family and colours. Surely family correlates easily across languages, right? Words for ‘relatives’ are often some of the first things … Read more
uTalk has launched 10 free language quizzes on popular game-based learning platform Kahoot. The fun and addictive quizzes are based on the free Starter Words in our utalk.com/app and covers core languages in the curriculum (list). There’s even a Learn English from Spanish quiz specially designed for the US where Spanish is the second language. The quizzes were … Read more
Here at uTalk, we’re five years into our epic project to localise our app in over 200 languages. Lovers of uTalk will know that we’ve already released over 130 languages, and there are plenty more in production as we speak, including Manx, Dzongkha, Shanghainese and Lebanese Arabic. Whenever we produce a new language, we do … Read more