Alexander the Great and his Macedonian kin spoke Ancient Macedonian. Though the precise nature of this language is up for debate, evidence shows it was most likely similar to the Greek dialects of Aetolian or Doric. It may just be simpler to say that he … Read more
Estonian is a very difficult language for English speakers to learn. It is very different from English and with a lot of complex grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, it will take time and commitment to learn the language. The rewards are well worth the effort, but … Read more
For a native English speaker, Korean is going to be very hard to learn. Learning any foreign language is going to take time, so when you take a language as different from English as Korean, that time is going to take considerably longer. It’s about … Read more
Eritrea, like many African countries, is enormously linguistically diverse. The main languages are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar and Beja. Many other foreign languages also play a key role, including Italian, English, and Arabic. A number of other Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharah languages are … Read more
Relatively speaking, Portuguese is one of the easier languages for English speakers to learn. It’s closely related, and has many comparable rules to English. However, learning any language is a difficult process, and learning Portuguese is really only “easy” compared to other languages. Still, Portuguese … Read more
Though Italian is not as closely related to English as some other languages, its Latin roots make it one of the easier languages for English speakers to learn. While learning any language is challenging and time consuming, Italian is among the easier languages to learn … Read more
Moses would have spoken Hebrew and the Egyptian that would have become Coptic. Egyptian would have been his first language, and he would have learned Hebrew later on. He would have originally learned to read and write in Egyptian. Whether Hebrew was the language Moses … Read more
Cuban Spanish is also known as ‘Cubano’. With 11 million speakers, Cuba has had Spanish as its primary language since 1492. However, in the 19th and 20th centuries, migrants from the Canary Islands settled in Cuba, creating their version of Spanish- ‘Cubano’. Many will know … Read more
Albanian is relatively difficult for English speakers to learn. It’s a language very different from English in many ways, meaning there’s a lot more you have to learn from the ground up. Learning any language is never easy, but you will have more of an … Read more
German is the official language of German, and around 95% of the nation’s population speaks either standard German or a regional dialect of German. There are also many other regional tongues recognized as distinct languages in Germany, such as Low Rhenish, Bavarian, Alemannic, as well … Read more