[http://youtu.be/QG-ORLkMiyY] (YouTube link)I put... ...thing strange about it. No one seems to know what language the actors are speaking!Native speakers of Mandar... ...e, and Korean declare that it is not any of those languages . The first time I listened to them, the ads soun... ...t a word of Chinese he...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/18/Windows-8-Beautiful-and-Fast/
Map shows the regions with languages descending from the 7 Eurasiatic language families (Image: Pagel et al./PNAS) We're... ...agel of Reading University claimed that languages across Europe and Asia - from English t... ...the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/07/23-Words-That-Survived-Since-the-Ice-Age/
Most languages cannot be translated word-by-word because context...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/08/9-Little-Translation-Mistakes-That-Caused-Big-Problems/
Little kids sure pick up languages fast - but what you probably don't know is... ...d marked interest for the vowels of a language that was not their mother tongue. "... ...particular speech sounds of our mother's language before we are born...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/03/Babies-Start-Learning-Language-Before-Being-Born/
Chris Higgins of mental_floss wrote a book called The Blogger Abides. It's about, you guessed it, blogging! In an excerpt he posted today, he gives many examples of misused words and phrases he's been called out on over...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/03/Words-and-Phrases-Ive-Misused/[http://youtu.be/Js4fP9BpsUc] (YouTube link)When y... ...be link)When you are learning to speak your first language
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/28/Can-You-Say-Banana/
Johann Schleyer invented a new language in the 1880s called Volapük. The language was quite popular for some time, and still exists... ...nd there. The German priest drew from the English language as well as German and others, and had a particula... ...Divine presence...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/28/Trth-Beaty-and-Volapk/[http://youtu.be/YjpcZPT1-NA] (YouTube link)Recent... ...e of bedhead, speaks to a man who claims to speak languages
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/19/Can-You-Speak-Venusian/
Why do we say something is "piping hot," and something else should be taken "with a grain of salt," and why do we have a "bone to pick"? We use food phrases all the time. We know what we mean when we say them, but how di...
http://www.neatorama.com/neatolicious/2012/11/29/10-Food-Idioms-Explained/
The coffee shop at Debenhams, a department store on High Street in London, determined that 70% of their customers found American-style coffee shop terms confusing. So they did what any smart business would do -they decid...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/31/Just-Coffee-Please/
