The Language Learning Specialists
Our tech guys have been hard at work over here on all sorts of fun stuff and weāve decided itās time to give you all a little treat. With this new update, weāre going to almost double the amount of free words available on the appāso alongside such classics as ‘yes’ and ‘no’, youāll also … Read more
This spumoni day, we explain how Neapolitan ice cream came to exist. Chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla? Or maybe youād prefer cherry, pistachio, and vanilla instead? When it comes to ice cream, everyone has their own preferences. This is particularly true in Italy, where food is so closely tied to culture that several dishes, including spumoni, … Read more
Languages say something about our culture and our soul, according to uTalk’s language guru (pictured). Which is why Brian Loo Soon Hua, who knows upwards of eight languages, is worried about the number of endangered languages on the verge of becoming extinct. ‘Languages are going extinct and regional differences are slowly dying out,’ he says. … Read more
Valentineās day ā 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 āOn ne badine pas avec lāamourā: āWe are often deceived in love, often wounded and often miserable; but we love, and when … Read more
Language learning company uTalk has launched an app to help save the threatened Southern Saami language spoken by reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden. The herders are nicknamed the people of eight seasons because their culture divides the calendar year into eight or more seasons to tie in with the life cycle of the reindeer. … Read more
7000 languages, 7 billion people ā one museumās answer The word of God, childrenās novels, recipes, drunken talk, rumours or political promises: everything is about speaking. Itās estimated that there are 7000 spoken languages in the world and a billion different ways to say all those things. This uninterrupted discussion among people of generations started … Read more
Our word of the month for the #LanguageDare is āThank youā (as all of you who have bravely posted your social media entry will already know). And itās got me thinking about all the people who have helped me on my language learning journey, whether by teaching, correcting, encouraging or even just interacting with me, … Read more
Last week, we talked about the problem of translating certain words and concepts into other languages (if you missed last weekās blog you can take a read of it here). This week weāre moving onto family and colours. Surely family correlates easily across languages, right? Words for ‘relatives’ are often some of the first things … Read more
uTalkĀ 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 ourĀ utalk.com/appĀ and covers core languages in the curriculum (list). Thereās 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, weāre five years into our epic project to localise our app in over 200 languages. Lovers of uTalk will know that weāve 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