Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for "obvious" public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: "Don't Commit Crime." picked by spocksmyhomeboy 1 year ago

Mango is offering free language courses on French, German, Italian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and even Pig Latin
Spanish and Polish speakers can learn English picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago

FOXP2, to date the only gene known to play a role in speech and language, has now been found by scientists to be identical in Neanderthals and Humans. picked by DrNothing 12 months ago

Arabic, Latin, English, Hebrew, Aramaic and Persian are all well known languages, but can there be a language that predates humanity itself by millions of years?

It's only the genetic code, but still an interesting article picked by lostsoul135 2 months ago

Norwegian (here I'm talking about bokmål, the most often-used variety of Norwegian) is a language spoken by about 5 million people in Norway, and is extremely similar to the languages Swedish and Danish. picked by bernardblack 2 months ago

This female chimpanzee was said to be the first non-human to acquire human language. She died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. picked by Proverb 12 months ago

maybe its not dead, it says some people still speak it. in my opinion it's an unborn language
*it was intended as a world language, FAIL* picked by picklebob12 8 months ago

A Latin American language may die out due to lack of communication. picked by kissmenow 11 months ago

The Klingon Language Institute exists to facilitate the scholarly exploration of the Klingon language and culture.

(we do need a "culture" category picked by suebe 11 months ago

How to know if a girl is interested in you (body language of flirting) picked by kokototo 1 year ago

In research published on Monday, scientists seeking clues to the origins of human language analyzed the way two types of apes genetically closely related to people -- chimpanzees and bonobos -- use such hand and limb gestures to communicate. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An autistic women gives you some insight into the world of Autism. The first 3 minutes are in "her language" and then she provides a translation or at least an explanation in words that we can understand. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

Mobilesign.org is a video dictionary with over 5,000 British Sign Language signs. Produced by staff at the Centre for Deaf Studies, it is a mobile accessory to people who work with Deaf people, have Deaf customers or just want to learn to sign. picked by suebe 2 years ago

I don't think this has been posted before and the roasty thread got me thinking about it. So I present you the "swearsaurus" because we all need to learn the bad words in multiple languages.

Probably NSFW for language (and apparently ads if you don't have firefox). Void where prohibited. picked by dollyllama 11 months ago

Someone try this and tell me if it works. picked by Proverb 11 months ago

Will enable soldiers to carry on two-way conversation without human translators. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

On the bigotry of newspeak. picked by suckersklub 1 year ago

English as it is spoken today will have disappeared in 100 years and could be replaced by a global language called Panglish, researchers claim. New words will form and meanings will change with the most dramatic changes being made by people learning English as a second language. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Obama merely commented about the benefits of Americans learning a second language. A few people took issue with his comments, perhaps they misunderstood or twisted his words. He clarified his comments to show he wasn't some sort of secret anti-english person. picked by BernardBlack 3 months ago

Classic Victor Borge. One of his most famous bits. picked by 86Apex 1 year ago