[English] Che cosa non si dovrebbe mai dire in Italia?? Ci sono un paio di cose che, per una serie di regole sociali non scritte, gli Italiani non fanno come ci sono migliaia di cose simili, piccole accortezze, gesti impercettibili che anche in altri paesi si dovrebbe o non si dovrebbe fare. È davvero difficile [...]

This article is a post to answer what we feel are the two biggest questions on the competition: Why we came up with the idea, and how we made the ranking of the blogs work. Why did we feel we needed to make a blog list? The short answer is that we couldn’t find one. [...]

After the great success of last year’s competition it’s time again for the Top 100 Language Blogs competition – now bigger and better than ever. We’ve added four new categories to the competition and improved ranking methods based on last year’s feedback. We here at the bab.la language portal made by and for language lovers [...]

Languages are a tricky thing, and if you’re a true language lover like us, you probably agree. The list is long, and depending on the language you’re learning and on your mother tongue, you might have to deal with prepositions, tons of new vocabulary, pronunciation, verb conjugation, adjectives, pronouns, direct and indirect object, and so on. Overwhelming, yes.

[English] Der erste Kontakt mit der japanischen Sprache ist schnell gemacht. Kulturelle Anknüpfpunkte gibt es genug. Sei es das japanische Essen, japanische Comics, die Sprache selber oder die japanische Mentalität – viele Menschen sind von der Insel und ihrer Kultur begeistert. Doch wie schwierig ist es wirklich als Deutscher die japanische Sprache zu lernen? Einfach [...]

The Japanese culture offers so many different and interesting aspects: the food, the comics, the mentality, and the language itself. It is easy to understand why a great deal of people are fascinated by this island and its culture.

The countdown is over, Friday is here folks! And just like every Friday our hard-working language lovers have searched the Web to provide you with some unique content.

Let´s be realistic and objective… When talking about French people, you can´t avoid making fun of their language skills…

[English] Soyons réalistes, en tant que Francais (et fiers de l´être) nous avons des difficultés concernant l’apprentissage des langues étrangères! Certes, nous sommes des experts de l’art culinaire ou encore de l’amour…mais en matière de linguistique, nous avons de gros progrès à faire et surtout concernant la langue de Shakespeare. Il faut pourtant reconnaitre les [...]

Difficulties connected to the use of articles can be explained by the fact that the Russian language, unlike the majority of Western European languages does not use any articles whatsoever. Mistakes connected to the misuse and complete disregard for articles have become typical mistakes made by Russian learners of English.