World languages

World languages

Various languages spoken around the world, their origin, history and culture.

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Thai

Language; World languages

The Thai script does not use a Latin alphabet, but is derived from the Khmer script. Over half of the words, grammar, and intonation in the Thai language are the same as in the Lao language. Thai ...

French

Language; World languages

French is an official language in 29 countries. It is one of the most challenging languages to learn because of the spelling and very difficult pronunciation. How ever, if the learner's language ...

Danish

Language; World languages

Danish is spoken by 6 million people. It is a European language from the North Germanic family of languages. What makes is so difficult to learn is the sound system. It's very hard to learn how ...

Hindi

Language; World languages

Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. It had 180 million speakers in 1991. The distinction between aspirated and ...

Arabic

Language; World languages

Modern Arabic is an official language of 27 states, the third most after English and French. It had 290 million native speakers in 2010. It uses the Arabic alphabet. The modern written Arabic is ...

Turkish

Language; World languages

Turkish has around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeastern Europe and 55–60 million native speakers in Western Asia. Here's what makes it extremely hard to master: "The distinctive ...

Vietnamese

Language; World languages

Vietnamese was identified more than 150 years ago. It has around 70 million native speakers. Much of Vietnamese lexicon actually comes from Chinese. What makes it so difficult to learn is the ...