Hangul: the heart of the Korean language When people first see the Korean alphabet, many assume the language must be difficult to learn. However, Hangul (한글) – the official writing system of both South and North Korea – is often considered one of the easiest alphabets in the world to […]

The Navajo Code: the secret language that changed the course of the War During World War II, the United States discovered an unexpected secret weapon: the Navajo language. This complex and little-known Indigenous language became the foundation for an unbreakable military code used in secret communications across the Pacific. Thanks […]

Languages without numbers or with unique numerical systems: a journey through linguistic diversity! The languages of the world are not only tools of communication, but real mirrors of the cultures that speak them. One of the most interesting features is the way in which different languages represent numbers. Some languages […]

The Cherokee alphabet: a masterpiece of linguistic ingenuity In the world of languages, there are Cherokee alphabet, a unique syllabary created by Sequoyah in the early decades of the 19th century. This writing system is one of the few cases in which a single person devised an entire alphabet for […]

In another article article we analyzed the difference between Bristish and American English; but English is the official language or widely spoken in other countries, today we talk about Aussie English, English spoken and written in Australia. The Australian English has fewer substantial differences with the British one than the […]

In 2021 there are approximately 7,139 spoken languages (source Ethnologue ),  each with its own characteristics, in some cases truly unique, as we have also seen in one of our articles. To these real languages we could then add the artificial ones, which are not few. How can we not […]

Large companies are often already present in several foreign markets, but, even for those who have a micro or small business, evaluating the opportunity to enter the foreign market, can be a fundamental step to grow their business. And it is not just about companies, if you are a professional […]

It is 2021, globalization is advancing, and with it also the increasing use of foreign, mostly English-speakingterms in our everyday language. Maybe it’s a particularly fashionable term, or we’re talking about the weekend or this lockdown then had us at home and online perhaps more than we should have been […]

We will soon be able to move more freely and, maybe, in our travels we will come across some very particular languages. In some of these, very few or very many consonants are used, and there are also whistles and sounds similar to “click” that are part of the language […]

In these weeks a word rages on the net: CATCALLING o CAT-CALLING. It is, unfortunately, the last of the English terms that have come to the fore to identify a certain type of harassment addressed, in the vast majority of cases, to women. Specifically, it refers to the whistles and […]

Translating is not easy, especially when you meet terms that our mother tongue just fails to express because there is actually not a single suitable term! There are words that are untraslatable in Italian (but also in other languages), to make the meaning of the word fully clear, we must […]

Who as a child has never played a prank on April 1st? And who still does them today? It is a tradition rooted in many cultures, but why do we say “Pesce d’Aprile” or “Poisson d’Avril” in Italy and France, while for example in the UK we talk about “April’s […]

We have been providing foreign language training for over twenty years and the Covid19 pandemic, which is still widely spreading in Europe and the world, has also had a major impact on our company. Most of the participants in our courses are managers and professionals of all types of companies, […]

Have you ever thought that “the world is just such a small place”? Perhaps while traveling on the other side of the world you met a neighbor, or at a social event you bumped into a high school mate you hadn’t seen since. There are plenty of similar stories! There’s […]