"Languages" Blogs & Blog Posts

When translated, these Finnish phrases might confuse or amuse Americans.

After moving to Italy, I had a hard time learning the Italian language. But when I adopted my dog, people were friendlier, and it became easier.

Solidarity amongst Indigenous peoples is circulating and growing. Shared experiences enduring and thriving despite the ravages of capitalist accumulation and Christian dominion on the people, plants, and animals of the earth conditions the possibilit...

Jean-Pierre Beaudoin told TVA Nouvelles he was informed that an English-speaking flight attendant would serve him or he could take another flight.

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom is a 2003 short film written and directed by Daniel O'Hara, that's best for the fact that it's filmed mostly in the Irish language. But don't worry, it's quite accessible, even without the subtitles (though they'll certainly help)...

Fallou Ngom is a professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University — but the path to that career began in earnest with his father's death in 1996. Ngom's prior academic focus had been in French and linguistics, bu...

Sakhile Dube of "Safari and Surf" in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province explains the click sounds heard in the Zulu language (aka IsiZulu), a Bantu language spoken by more than ten million people in the region. image: "Geographical distrib...