Working as a translator is a beautiful job: you can use your creativity, have the freedom to decide when and where to work, bridge language barriers – it is full of advantages! But if you want to be honest, this lifestyle has its difficulties as well. Have you ever experienced being exhausted, feeling unable toRead more

You have several options once you decide you want to learn a new language. There are a lot of offers of language schools from the ones with loose schedule to the super-intensive courses, you can go to a private teacher, you can DIY, not to mention the combination of all these. But there is one thingRead more

Kato Lomb, a hungarian polyglot was one of the first people who worked in simultaneous interpretation, spoke 16 languages – most of them she learnt as an autodidact – and travelled all around the world. Have you ever thought about learning more languages – or did our previous post inspire you to do so? HereRead more

Every now and then we bump into articles, gags, blog posts, videos saying something like “The top 10 hardest languages in the world”. But does such a thing at all exist? Let’s take a better look on that with linguists! Danish In the above video it is stated: danish is the 10th of the most difficultRead more

A very interesting article has been published on iflscience.com: it is about researches showing the language you speak actually changes your view of the world. It is even more exciting when it comes to bi- or multilingual people… One of these researches has been published in Psychological Science. In this research scientists studied German-English bilinguals andRead more

This situation fairly represents the common known phenomenon: one has an idea, needs people to make it come true, initiates, plans and executes everything, and in the end… it turns out that nothing is working the way it should. Practice vs. theory.   If you ever worked in a team you probably realized soon enough:Read more

In these 2+1 videos (the +1 will be a surprise at the end of this post) you can take a deeper look into the process how fictional/fantasy languages can be created. Like almost all studies and articles related to this topic, we must start with the grandfather of all these language inventing methods, J.R.R. Tolkien. As explainedRead more

Languages are most likely almost as old as mankind – or, at least, the same age with any early civilization. Plus, they are as variable as the civilizations across the world which obviously makes us think there must be some linguistic world records hard to believe. A LinkedIn user Omar Almossa collected quite a few fromRead more

A very enthusiastic reddit user created these amazing word maps, businessinsider.com reports. Did you know anything about the origins of the words church, apple, bear, orange, rose, pineapple, and so on? The etymology of these words might surprise you – as well as the similarities and differences of these words in the european languages. Let’s start it with church.Read more