News about languages and Freelang website
According to the United Nations, one indigenous language dies every two weeks, mostly amidst general indifference. That is what almost happened to Hawaiian, a few decades ago, before it was …
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Languages are a bit like animal species, they disappear from the surface of the Earth at an alarming rate. And just like animal species, the study of a rare language …
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Version 4.3 of the Freelang Dictionary fixes a bug that would prevent the installation of the program, in some cases when several Windows accounts were on the same computer. In …
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As promised, we did it! We turned the Freelang Dictionary into an application that you can download on your phone or tablet, provided you use an Android system. To install …
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Anyone who has had a conversation with someone who speaks English as a second language is likely to have heard the same complaint: English is one of the toughest languages …
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As the native language of a small Pacific Island, Samoan faces the same challenges many other indigenous languages are up against in the modern, globalized world. But Samoan also has …
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TED talks, once the realm of academics and business magnates, are now well known and widely spread thanks to the Internet. But despite the level playing field the web has …
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Kurdish nationalists within Turkey won a small victory recently when they were granted the right to use their own language in court. Kurdish populations comprise large minority groups in several …
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The latest reports from the Vatican have announced the establishment of a Pontifical Academy for Latin, designed to encourage and spread the learning of Latin around the world. Latin has …
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As a Pacific colony of the French, Tahiti suffered the same fate as many other colonies – its native language became somewhat displaced by the language of the colonizers. But …
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