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27Jul

By George SanghviNo Comments

Culture

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Africa!

Africa is a huge place. Over three times the size of the US, and almost three times the size of Europe with a population of over 1.2 billion, Africa is a diverse place to say the least, with the languages of Africa being equally diverse too. Having hundreds of ethnic groups and minority languages, as well as European languages - the byproduct of colonization from years gone by - the African continent is the most linguistically diverse continent on the planet! So here are the most spoken/important languages spoken on the African continent... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Primary Official Languages Whilst the continent of Africa itself doesn't have any "official" languages, the countries in Africa do. The following are the most frequently o...

15 South African Slang Words You (Might) Want to Use!

8Dec

By George SanghviNo Comments

Culture

15 South African Slang Words You (Might) Want to Use!

As with most other countries, South Africa has its own slang. South African slang has some of the coolest, weirdest and down right confusing slang words of any language I've ever seen! Many South African slang words have their origins in English, others have their origins in Afrikaans, others in Zulu, others in Xhosa, whilst a few have their origins in many other languages. Before you go around using these South African slang words, I feel the need to warn you. If you're white, or have any near European heritage (two generations), you may be told by locals not to use it. For the most part, this is due to racial tensions between the white South Africans and black South Africans. A very minute number of black South Africans will get confrontational if a white person uses the...

24Nov

By Henry AusbergerNo Comments

Learning Languages

15 Best Languages You Should Learn!

As of the time of writing, there are roughly 6,000 languages spoken all around the world. Naturally, not all languages are created equal, so which are the best languages you might want to learn? Naturally, this is likely to cause a lot of controversy, as how you define "best" is very subjective and varies greatly from person to person. As such, these are form the general consensus. Many of these languages are among the most useful languages on the planet, often serving some important role in life. on the other hand, many are quite useless in many ways, but are still quite important. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 15. Turkish When it comes to the best languages you could learn, Turkish is one that you probably wouldn't think of. For most pe...

26May

By George SanghviNo Comments

Learning Languages

9 Newest Languages in the World

Two weeks ago, we covered the oldest languages in the world. Today, we will find which are the newest languages in the world, which are the youngest languages that are still used today! Most of these languages are novelty languages, or are severely endangered languages at the least. This subject often comes with a lot of arguments. People often define the term "newest language" in different ways, which often leads to this topic being quite heated. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 9. Afrikaans (340 years) Afrikaans is considered to be the newest national language. When South Africa became independent in May 1910, Afrikaans as well as ten other languages, became South Africa's national language. Afrikaans began when the Dutch first settled i...