This is really cool, but also really weird!

We are so used to speaking and listening that we don’t often think about what speaking is. It is simply making vibrations in the air that are then transmitted to others around us. A microphone is one way to pick up these vibrations and a speaker, which is designed to recreate those vibrations can play […]

How Many Languages Are There? | The Intrepid Guide

  How Many Languages Are There? | The Intrepid Guide There are196 countries, but how many languages are there in the world? According to Ethnologue, there are currently 7,102 languages spoken around the world.There are 196 countries, but how many languages are there in the world? According to Ethnologue, there are currently 7,102 languages spoken around the world. […]

Grammar rules aren’t nearly as clear-cut as we thought | Science | AAAS

  Grammar rules aren’t nearly as clear-cut as we thought | Science | AAAS Source: www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/grammar-rules-aren-t-nearly-clear-cut-we-thought Grammar is not something that has been given to us by some authority and then learned and used by the populace. It is in fact invented by people. Humans love to communicate and they will instinctively come up with […]

Meet the man who taught Leonardo DiCaprio to speak the Arikara language in The Revenant – APTN National NewsAPTN National News

  Meet the man who taught Leonardo DiCaprio to speak the Arikara language in The Revenant – APTN National NewsAPTN National News Source: aptn.ca/news/2016/01/07/meet-the-man-who-taught-leonardo-dicaprio-to-speak-the-arikara-language-in-the-revenant/ I love it when they incorporate indigenous language in movies. The Native American languages are really awesome. Other European languages are generally pretty easy to learn because they are very similar […]