The Modern Greek language has some aspects that would totally baffle a native English speaker for various reasons.

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

On a small, mountainous island in the Canary archipelago off the coast of northwest Africa, an entire community still communicates using nothing but whistles. The island is called La Gomera, and the ...

As explained in a previous post, there is not only one Chinese language but many variants and dialects. It was only after the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in 1912, that Mandarin, a ...

Words are a powerful tool for communicating an experience to others, but they can also alter your own perception of that experience entirely. When going about our daily lives, most of us experience ...