‘Too old to work in China:’ 50-yr-old flight attendant learns new languages to land foreign airline job

Social media users are commending a Chinese flight attendant who secured a job at an international airline at age 50 after improving her En...

Tiktoker shows what languages sound like to non-speakers after he learned about language disorders

TikTok user Diego Rivas has received millions of views for his videos that capture what different languages sound like to people who do not ...

2-year-old child learns how to count in Japanese in less than a day

A 2-year-old from Ghana is being heralded as a child prodigy for his advanced math skills and his ability to count in four languages. Number...

Japanese, Korean and Turkish languages originated from farmers in northeast China, study reveals

Five languages — Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tungusic and Turkish — belonging to the Transeurasian family are claimed to have emerged from ...

Black Man Makes Asian Strangers Feel At Home By Speaking With Them in Their Native Language

YouTuber Moses McCormick uploaded a fascinating video of him talking to different nationalities living in the U.S. using the language in the...

Over 40% of the U.S. Speaks Asian Languages After English and Spanish

English is the most common language spoken in the United States but one map reveals what languages besides English and Spanish are used at h...

Why Filipino Netizens are Outraged Over Viral Video of Woman Counting Cash

Filipino netizens are up in arms against a compatriot for reportedly misrepresenting the Philippines in a viral video featuring different na...

China Releases Official English Translations For People Who Keep Using ‘Chinglish’

China just issued official translations for 3,500 Chinese phrases to keep clueless foreigners from “mispronouncing” certain words, notably t...

China Wants 80% of the Country to Be Speaking Mandarin by 2020

China has announced plans to increase the rate of citizens speaking Mandarin, the country’s official language, to 80% by 2020. The current f...

Russian Students May Have to Learn Mandarin For College Entrance Exams By 2020

Russia’s Federal Service for the Supervision of Education and Science plans to make Mandarin Chinese a mandatory foreign language in state t...

These Are the World’s Most Spoken Languages in One Chart

There are 7,102 known languages alive today. The graph below represents 4.1 billion people who speak at least one of the world’s 23 most-spo...