Mandarin is often ranked as the hardest language in the world to learn. The sheer number of characters—more than 80,000, with at least 2,000 required for basic literacy—makes learning the language ...

Meet Jane Kasemsarn, a young, beautiful, and intelligent Thai woman, a devoted Pilates practitioner, a model, and the girlfriend of a young Swedish man. I got to know Jane about a year and a half ago ...

You might have seen it in movies: Pilots and air traffic controllers saying "tree," "fife," and "niner" instead of three, five, and nine. What is that about?

As a former EFL (English as a foreign language) teacher, I can only marvel at the incredible language learning possibilities offered by the Internet and more specifically mobile technology. I wish my ...

She was speaking at a Swedish Air Force Fan Club event at Farnborough on Jul. 21, 2024. But the entire effort, is in a very nascent stage which might not necessarily translate into an operational ...

This Germanic language is classified as “Category 1” by the Foreign Service Institute — meaning it’s easier for both native and non-Swedish people to learn the language. Like Norwegian, Swedish has ...

In Sweden, where Yiddish has been a national minority language since 2000, Tomas Woodski has hosted two TV shows in Yiddish on the Swedish national television: “ Woodskis värld ” (Woodski’s ...

It has been almost 80 years since Mongolia switched to using the Cyrillic alphabet. Why is the government now promoting the traditional bichig script? The Complex Geopolitics of Mongolia’s ...

The ipa-dict-dsl project has converted all of the IPA data into DSL format dictionary files for use with dictionary software such as ABBY Lingvo, GoldenDict, or gdcl.Pre-compiled and compressed ...

Find out how to pronounce common Irish names with our audio guide, plus read our Irish language hacks so you figure out names yourself. CNN values your feedback 1.

It is largely similar to the English alphabet, with a few differences in pronunciation. Familiarizing yourself with the Italian alphabet and its phonetic language properties is crucial for ...

Key among them is Bernhard Karlgren, a Swedish linguist and sinologist who first came to China in March 1910, and through fieldwork over a period of two years, helped fill in the blanks of ancient ...