Interesting Facts About the Serbian Language and Culture Explained

Serbia is the largest of the former republics making up Yugoslavia, formed after the Second World War. As the Serbian-dominated federation broke up, it eventually left Serbia alone. Serbia is a landlocked country, bordered on the northwest by Hungary, the northeast by Romania, the southeast by Bulgaria and North Macedonia, the west by Croatia and […]

8 Reasons Why You Should Learn Turkish

Learning Turkish has many advantages and here are eight great reasons described below to learn the Turkish language. 1. Learn Turkish to speak to a lot of people The Turkish language is Turkey’s official language but that’s not the only country where Turkish is spoken. There are millions of people who live in Greece, Germany, […]

The 7 Most Obscure World Languages

There are about 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world and some of these are quite obscure. They include languages like Silbo Gomero, Pawnee, Esperanto, Sentinelese, Andamanese, Pirahã, and Taa. Silbo Gomero is spoken on the island of La Gomera in the Spanish Canary Islands. It is classified as a whistling language. Pawnee is a language […]

The Hardest Languages to Learn in the World

People all around the world learn languages other than their native language for a variety of reasons. In some countries, national boundaries enclose a naturally multilingual population. Switzerland, for example, has German, French, Italian, and Romansh speakers. Most Swiss can speak at least two of these languages. In Belgium, French and Flemish (Dutch) are both […]

Mandarin is Now the Second Most Spoken Language in Australia

Recent research shows that Mandarin has now overtaken Arabic as the most common language found spoken in Sydney after English. An anthology called ‘Multilingual Sydney’ has mapped out how Sydney in New South Wales is now a melting pot of both cultures and languages and the Mandarin language is the firm second most spoken language […]

Good Reasons to Learn Japanese

Japanese never became an international language in the same way that English, French, and even Arabic became, yet it is still one of the world’s most important languages and there are many reasons why the language should be learned. Some of those reasons are explored below. #1 Japan’s economy is one of the world’s largest […]

Linguistic Services in Business are Highly Important Today

As soon as a business has raised significant revenue from a new product sold to its home market, the next step to follow is to go global with the product. But for a marketing campaign to be successful, there are some challenges that need to be addressed so that any marketing material sent overseas attracts […]

What’s the Difference Between Language and Dialect?

Introduction Once upon a time, people rarely traveled, or at least never traveled as much as they do today (speaking of pre-Covid times of course!) Communities were separated from other communities for much of the time and over long periods of time the way they spoke to each other, and their language changed slowly. The […]

Do Sri Lankan Tamils Speak Sinhala?

Introduction Sri Lanka, the “teardrop-shaped island” to the South of India, is a bilingual country that has inherited its bilingualism and the origin of the conflicts between the two main ethnic groups that live there because of its colonial history. What Language Is Spoken In Sri Lanka? The majority of Sri Lankans are Sinhalese. They […]

Adapting Egyptian Language to Egyptian Culture

One often wonders why so many people want to visit Egypt until they are reminded that Egypt boasts one of the world’s most ancient civilizations. There are still remnants of bygone eras in the mystical pyramids found in Giza, near Cairo, and the remains of the ancient cities of Aswan and Luxor. In its heyday, […]