A New Year's resolution is a vow people make to themselves to change an undesired habit or behaviour. The following map shows what New Year's resolutions are called in European languages (different

Learn how to wish a "Happy New Year" in German, French, Spanish, Italian and other languages with my neatly coloured map!

Find out who brings Christmas gifts in France, Germany, Spain, and many other countries by looking at this neatly coloured map.

Did you know that the animal proverbially killed in the expression "kill two birds with one stone" differs from country to country? The map below shows the type of animal killed (birds are red,

The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt

Newscasters and Stephen Colbert seem to think so.

Sideways dictionary — it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions. Use it as a tool for finding and sharing helpful analogies to explain technological ideas. Because if everyone understands technology better, we can make technology work better for everyone.

F-word substitutes vary by region.

When Lori Rifkin asked the opposing lawyer to stop interrupting her while she questioned a potential witness, he replied: “Don’t raise your voice at me. It’s not becoming of a woman.”

Signs are meant to warn you about potential hazards or identify certain things but the task of translation may instead leave you crying from laughter or scratching your head in confusion.

1922, in “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” The words that we have at our disposal affect what we see—and the more words there are, the better our perception. When we learn to speak a different language, we learn to see a bigger world.

The Marchex Institute examines the speech patterns of Americans and ranks all 50 states on gabbiness, impatience and fast-talking.

No language-learning program knows what it’s talking about when they say they can show you how to learn a language like a baby. There’s no other way.

Of the 44 presidents of the United States, at least half have displayed proficiency in speaking or writing a language other than English. Of these, only one, Martin Van Buren, learned English as his second language; his first language was Dutch. Four of the earliest presidents were multilingual, with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson demonstrating proficiency in a number of foreign languages.

Learn languages by reading books on paralleltext.io. See translation for sentences and listen in parallel in many different languages.

Father Christmas and the girl were at the Cleveland Centre in a scene almost straight from Christmas movie Miracle on 34th Street

Each language forces you to think in a slightly different way. There are many concepts that can be expressed easily in one language but not in another. The first thing people think of when asked about differences in vocabulary used in different languages is just isolated words, such as English having no equivalent to the German word Schadenfreude, which means “pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others”.