The languages category features all of our blog posts relating to languages around the world. We post on topics and news about languages and people.

Linguists are the forgotten heroes of language, lovingly creating, managing and documenting our languages. We focus on one linguist, David Crystal.

star translation talk like a pirate

Ahoy maties!. Remember Sept 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Here’s some phrases to get ye smartly on yer way. Aye!.

star translation talk like a pirate

Today is International Talk like a Pirate Day! On the 19th of September, every year, we commemorate the golden age of Piracy as a ‘fun’ holiday.

A US census had shown that more than 55 million people speak more than 300 languages. Spanish and Chinese were the most-spoken languages of all.

paris by night

Believe it or not, you already know how to speak some French!

You know the latest product a la mode, you have a rendez-vous and you eat foie-gras.

A new Census Bureau Interactive Map shows Spanish as the number one language spoken in USA with Chinese being the second most-spoken one; most of the population is proficient in English, however.