While the United States of America doesn’t have an official language on a national level, English is accepted as the country’s standard language. Almost 80% of Americans only speak English at home. Other common languages spoken in the USA are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Arabic, … Read more
Fiji has three official languages: English, Fijian and Fiji Hindi. Fijian is spoken by the majority of indigenous Fijians, who represent around 54% of the population. Rotuman is another indigenous language spoken in Fiji. You will also hear other foreign and immigrant langauges, such as … Read more
Albanian is by far the most common language in Albania, with over 98% of the population able to speak and understand the language. Albanian is the only official language of Albania. There are still several minority languages spoken, including Greek, Aromanian, Romani, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, … Read more
Afghanistan has two nationally recognized official languages: Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is second, with 35% of Afghans speaking the language. A country ridden with wars and … Read more
Africa is home to a third of the world’s languages, with up to two thousand native languages spoken across the continent. Most of those fall into six language families: Afroasiatic, Austronesian, Indo-European, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan. Beyond these native languages, many African countries also have … Read more
Being a mythic figure, it is difficult even to speculate about the language that Noah spoke. Jewish tradition holds that there was a “proto language”, otherwise known as the “Adamic language”, which predated all known languages today, and Noah may have spoken this. Others hold … Read more
German is relatively difficult for an English speaker to learn, although certainly a great deal easier than many languages. It is closely related to English giving a considerable leg up to English speakers trying to learn it. The grammar is exceptionally complex, in a variety … Read more
Norwegian is so similar to English that it makes it one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn. Nevertheless, it is still a completely distinct language, and learning it takes time and patience. Relatively speaking, though, it is a lot easier than a … Read more
Catherine the Great, who lived from May 1729 to November 1796, was the last Empress of Russia. She ruled for 34 years from 1762 up until her death, making her the longest serving Emperor or Empress in Russia’s history. She was born in Prussia (Germany) … Read more
Charlemagne would have primarily spoken Frankish, a West Germanic language spoken from around the 5th to the 9th Century in Central Europe. This would have been his native language and the language he used on a day-to-day basis. There is also ample evidence that he … Read more