Dansk er et lille sprog. Med kun lidt over 5,5 million mennesker med dansk som modersmål, kan man dårligt kalde dansk for et verdenssprog på lige fod med spansk eller kinesisk, og desuden taler de fleste danskere flydende engelsk. Så hvorfor lære dansk? Bortset fra øl, smukke piger og den umiddelbare velvilje du vil opleve [...]

Danish is a small language. With just about than 5.5 million native speakers, Danish is hardly a world language like Spanish or Mandarin, and the majority of the population is fluent in English anyway. So why learn Danish?

الأرقام الأكثر تداولا في العالم بأسره هي الأرقام العربية و تعود قصة الأرقام العربية عند المسلمين إلى عام 154هـ \ 771م عندما وفد إلى بلاط الخليفة العباسي المنصور فلكي هندي، ومعه كتاب مشهور في الفلك والرياضيات هو “سدهانتا” لمؤلفه براهما جوبتا الذي وضعه في حوالي عام 6هـ \ 628م واستخدم فيه الأرقام التسعة. وقد أمر [...]

Arabs created their own vision of numbers, at the beginning they were not widely spread and now they are used all over the world not only because of their beautiful forms but also because of their practicality.

What kind of food do you eat every morning and easily found anywhere in the world? If your answer is “bread”, that’s right! Read the article to find out how much bread counts in our lives and…in our languages!

Que alimento você come todo dia de manhã e facilmente encontra em qualquer parte do mundo? Caso sua resposta seja “pão”, está certo! Há alguns dias me deparei com a expressão “One daily’s bread” que equivale ao nosso “pão de cada dia”. Não resisti à curiosidade e resolvi pesquisar mais dessas expressões idiomáticas que tem [...]

Jag har sommarjobbat som brevbärare de senaste sex åren; sorterat post på morgnarna för att sedan dela ut den på eftermiddagarna. Det kan vara enformigt, tungt och stressigt. Mestadels är det dock ett helt okej sommarjobb. Du börjar tidigt och slutar tidigt, får motion av att springa i trappor och känner att du gör någonting [...]

Now that it has been a couple of weeks since we published the results of our competition, this is the perfect time to take stock of it. Hosting the competition has always been a great experience, but this year it was even more fun. We introduced quite a change, broadening the competition to Facebook pages [...]

UPDATE: Nominations are closed. Voting has started! After the great success of the last three editions of our Top 100 Language Blogs competition (results for 2008, 2009, 2010), the bab.la language portal and Lexiophiles language blog are announcing this year’s contest with some minor changes: the Top 100 Language Lovers 2011 competition. Passion for languages [...]

The bab.la language portal and Lexiophiles blog are pleased to introduce the Top 100 Language Lovers 2011 competition. Due to the success of our previous Top 100 Language Blogs (read more about why we started the competition here), we decided this year to open the contest to Facebook Pages and Twitterers. There are four categories [...]