[English] हमे कहा गया कि इस हफ़्ते का विषय है – अंग्रेज़ी शब्द आपकी भाषा में कैसे आ गये हैं, और उनमें कौनसे बदल हो चुके हैं। अब यह सब अंग्रेज़ी में लिखना अलग और हिंदी में लिखना बिलकुल अलग बात है। दो सौ बरस भारत अंग्रेज़ों के राज्य में रहा। अब यह ध्यान में [...]

Yes, it’s Friday again! Well, most of us didn’t work yesterday. And those of us who didn’t think about taking a day off to have a longer weekend, are back to work. But it’s only for one day, weekend starts tomorrow again, so be brave.

Vilka är de bästa raggningsreplikerna? Vilka är de sämsta? Hur vet man om en raggningsreplik kommer att fungera?

What are the best Swedish pick-up lines? Which are the worst? How do you know if a pick-up line will work? What function do pick-up lines serve? Here is a short analysis on the subject of Swedish pick-up lines.

Great news! The bab.la language portal has been nominated for The Best Business Idea 2009 by the German Internet World Business magazine. We didn’t nominate ourselves (seeing as we would never do anything like that) so we find that we are both humbled and honored to have made the list. As regular readers might know, [...]

You might at some point of your life want to find your soul mate. No matter what, it always starts there: the Flirting stage!

It has been one week since the launch of our IX 09 competition (Top 100 International Exchange & Experience competition 2009 – phew! What a mouthful!) and the nominations are flowing in to the bab.la mailboxes. We have seen some great blogs so far and we know there is going to be some hot competition [...]

Early in the morning we drove through Esfahan to the bus station. My host was a crazy driver…

[English] शायद कसूर हमारी बॉलिवुड फ़िल्मों का है। हमेशा वही कहानी – लड़का कैसा भी हो, उसकी गुस्ताखी पर लड़की कितनी भी हैरान हो जाए – आखिर में हिरो के बोलने के ढंग के बलबूते पर लड़की पट जाएगी। सब लोग जानते हैं कि ऐसा ही होगा – दर्शकों को पता है, लड़के को पता [...]

It’s very easy to feel irresistibly beautiful in India. Just walk down the main road.