Isn’t it rewarding to master a foreign language? So many years spent reading grammar or learning vocabulary and finally you are there! or almost? It’s time to put an end to the age of doubts; here comes the era of certainties and bab.la is ready for it!

Qualche mese fa sono stati pubblicati su questo blog due articoli nei quali si davano suggerimenti su come imparare le lingue. Per quanto mi riguarda, nonostante abbia tentato di studiare un numero a dir poco infinito di lingue riuscendo però ad impararne solo tre, almeno in questo campo, mi considero comunque una studentessa niente male; [...]

I have attempted to study many languages but only succeeded in speaking fluently three of them, but I consider myself a quite good language learner; in fact, I can say I am quite an expert in this field! That is why I would like to share my learning secret with you.

A few weeks ago, we published two articles related to machine translation and they seemed to have inspired some of our readers who seized the opportunity to write about this topic. You will definitely want to think twice before using automatic translation.

Når det kommer til juletraditioner har danskerne nogle unikke skikke, og som den eneste dansker hos bab.la har jeg taget det på min kappe at introducere dem for jer læsere. I Danmark fejrer vi jul d. 24. december, og en af de ting vi går mest op i i løbet af julemåneden, er, at tælle [...]

When it comes to Christmas Traditions the Danes have a few unique customs and counting the days until Christmas is one of the things we do best.

In molte scuole del mondo, ma ovviamente soprattutto nei paesi occidentali, s´insegnano lingue morte come il greco e il latino. Alcuni esperti ritengono che studiare queste lingue sia utile agli studenti perché li aiuta a rendere le loro menti più elastiche e a imparare a pensare. Altri esperti, invece, sostengono che si tratti semplicemente di [...]

Some believe that studying dead languages is a good means for young students to make their mind more “elastic” and help them to learn how to think.

I am reading a book called “English Schimpfen”. It teaches you how to complain at everything and everyone.

För tillfället jobbar jag med att sätta samman en resefrasbok. Tanken är att den ska innehålla nyttiga fraser som man kan ha användning av när man reser, som att interagera med receptionisten på hotellet, kyparen i restaurangen och att fråga om vägen. För att få inspiration har jag tittat igenom gamla frasböcker som vi har [...]