7 Linguistics Podcasts For The Language Curious

7 Linguistics Podcasts For The Language Curious

What makes language so endlessly fascinating is that it intersects with every other topic you can th...

How To Apologize In French

How To Apologize In French

The first thing you need to learn about saying “sorry” in French is that you probably wo...

How To Talk About Tech And The Internet In Norwegian

How To Talk About Tech And The Internet In Norwegian

Learning a language online is becoming an increasingly popular option. When you can’t make it ...

10 US Politicians Who Speak A Foreign Language

10 US Politicians Who Speak A Foreign Language

Despite the United States being a multilingual melting pot, the relationship between American politi...

How To Say ‘Vote’ In 13 Different Languages

How To Say ‘Vote’ In 13 Different Languages

If you are a citizen of a democracy (or democratic republic), voting in elections is an important pa...

Quiz: Do You Know Where These National Dishes Come From?

Quiz: Do You Know Where These National Dishes Come From?

What makes an entree a country’s national dish? That’s not an easy question to answer. W...

Why Is It So Hard To Lose Your Accent As An Adult?

Why Is It So Hard To Lose Your Accent As An Adult?

It’s not your fault if you’ve been conditioned to believe that your best language-learni...

The Top 5 Reasons To Learn Polish

The Top 5 Reasons To Learn Polish

There are languages one learns because it makes geographical sense, connecting you to your neighbors...

The 8 Foreign-Language Songs That Have Topped The US Charts

The 8 Foreign-Language Songs That Have Topped The US Charts

If you go to another country and turn on the radio, you’ll stumble on an English song pretty quick...

4 Reasons Why 10 Million People Chose To Learn A New Language With Babbel

4 Reasons Why 10 Million People Chose To Learn A New Language With Babbel

The Babbel language learning app finished out 2020 with a bang, and for once this year, the news was...

Quiz: Do You Remember The Words That Defined 2020?

Quiz: Do You Remember The Words That Defined 2020?

Language, for the most part, seems to change pretty slowly. Teens might start using new words like &...

Un Día En Español 4: Meeting My Sister For The First Time

Un Día En Español 4: Meeting My Sister For The First Time

Subscribe to Un día en español: A Spanish learning podcast on Apple  Spotify &...

Multilinguish: Your Brain On Language

Multilinguish: Your Brain On Language

Subscribe to Multilinguish on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you li...

The 8 Best Films For Learning Norwegian

The 8 Best Films For Learning Norwegian

It might seem too easy to say that watching a movie in your learning language counts as studying, bu...

The 7 Best Films For Learning Indonesian

The 7 Best Films For Learning Indonesian

Historically, it’s been somewhat difficult to find non-English movies in English-speaking coun...

7 German Stereotypes We’re Tired of Hearing

7 German Stereotypes We’re Tired of Hearing

Germany, home of bland food, efficient-but-rude people, and a harsh, guttural language — at l...

Un Día En Español 7: ‘Taking’ The Subway In Buenos Aires

Un Día En Español 7: ‘Taking’ The Subway In Buenos Aires

Subscribe to Un día en español: A Spanish learning podcast on Apple  Spotify &...

Owning Language: The Weird World Of Trademarking Words

Owning Language: The Weird World Of Trademarking Words

Can you own a word? There are plenty of things that make sense to trademark, like a brand name or a ...

How Many People Speak English, And Where Is It Spoken?

How Many People Speak English, And Where Is It Spoken?

English is the most-spoken language in the world, and it can be found spread far and wide. While the...

How To Say Goodbye In Norwegian

How To Say Goodbye In Norwegian

What goes up must come down, and what starts with “hello” must eventually end with ̶...

9 Famous Songs With Bad Grammar (And How To Make Them Better)

9 Famous Songs With Bad Grammar (And How To Make Them Better)

Ah, music. Isn’t it wonderful? Music and lyrics can take you on the proverbial rollercoaster r...

Spanish Grammar: When To Use Tú And Usted

Spanish Grammar: When To Use Tú And Usted

The hardest concepts to grasp in a new language are the ones that don’t have an equivalent in ...

Vintage Spanish Words For Passionate Readers

Vintage Spanish Words For Passionate Readers

If you’ve ever decided to read a few “classic” Spanish books in your free time, you mi...

How To Say ‘I’m Sorry’ In 10 Different Languages

How To Say ‘I’m Sorry’ In 10 Different Languages

Often the best way to end a fight is to admit you were wrong and apologize.  If apologizing in ...

5 German Slang Words From The 2000s That Deserve A Comeback

5 German Slang Words From The 2000s That Deserve A Comeback

The youth lol’t, checkt ein, checkt ab, gammelt hart and geht steil. Are these words familiar to y...

6 Polish TV Shows To Watch If You’re Learning The Language

6 Polish TV Shows To Watch If You’re Learning The Language

The hardest part of learning Polish, or really any language, isn’t the grammar or the vocab �...

How To Apologize In Swedish

How To Apologize In Swedish

One thing you’ll learn quickly as a language student? There isn’t always one catch-all &...

How To Talk About The Home In Spanish

How To Talk About The Home In Spanish

As the popular Spanish expression of hospitality goes, mi casa es tu casa (“my house is your h...

7 TV Shows To Watch If You’re Learning English

7 TV Shows To Watch If You’re Learning English

There are many, many English TV shows. If you want to use television to learn a language, you have p...

The Buzzy History Of Spelling Bees

The Buzzy History Of Spelling Bees

Each year, whiz kids from around the United States gather for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the...