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

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 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