How To Talk About Tech And The Internet In Swedish

How To Talk About Tech And The Internet In Swedish

Technology is everywhere in most of modern society. It’s in your pocket, it’s on your wr...

9 Harmless Words That Started As Offensive Insults

9 Harmless Words That Started As Offensive Insults

It’s not too surprising to learn about how language changes, but it can be a bit more strange ...

7 Linguistics Podcasts For The Language Curious

7 Linguistics Podcasts For The Language Curious

What makes language so endlessly fascinating is that it intersects with every other topic you can th...

Jargon Watch: Astronauts And The Language Of Space Travel

Jargon Watch: Astronauts And The Language Of Space Travel

“5-4-3-2-1-0 booster ignition and liftoff!” You’ve probably heard the familiar sounds of a spa...

How To Talk About Family In Italian

How To Talk About Family In Italian

Family is a pretty big deal in Italian culture. And that’s not to suggest that it’s not ...

How To Talk About Tech And The Internet In Indonesian

How To Talk About Tech And The Internet In Indonesian

We’ve said many times before that immersion is one of the best ways to master a language. Some...

Why Is It So Hard To Lose Your Accent As An Adult?

Why Is It So Hard To Lose Your Accent As An Adult?

It’s not your fault if you’ve been conditioned to believe that your best language-learni...

How To Talk About Family In German

How To Talk About Family In German

Family is a huge part of, really, every culture in the world. But if you’re learning to talk a...

Babbel Podcasts: Listen and Learn

Babbel Podcasts: Listen and Learn

The language experts who create Babbel’s courses aim to get learners conversational in a new langu...

How To Talk About Family In Russian

How To Talk About Family In Russian

If you’re still rather green when it comes to the Russian language, you might still be laborin...

Multilinguish: The World Of, Um, Filler Words

Multilinguish: The World Of, Um, Filler Words

Subscribe to Multilinguish on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you listen....

Multilinguish: Words Of The Year 2020

Multilinguish: Words Of The Year 2020

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Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Babbel UK Scholarship

Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Babbel UK Scholarship

At Babbel, we believe that language is the key to unlocking higher education, whether that’s o...

4 Ways To Learn A Language While Exercising (And Why It Helps!)

4 Ways To Learn A Language While Exercising (And Why It Helps!)

Want to learn a language while exercising at the same time? It almost sounds too good to be true. Kn...

How To Apologize In Dutch

How To Apologize In Dutch

At some point in every language learner’s journey — often very early on — a situation aris...

What’s The Difference Between Britain, England And The UK?

What’s The Difference Between Britain, England And The UK?

You would think that figuring out the name of a country wouldn’t be too difficult. I mean, Germany...

What’s a Tandem Partner And How Should I Get One?

What’s a Tandem Partner And How Should I Get One?

Illustration: Daniel Marin MedinaWhen looking for the perfect tandem partner, it’s easy to feel li...

Un Día En Español 6: Fake Wedding In Montevideo

Un Día En Español 6: Fake Wedding In Montevideo

Subscribe to Un día en español: A Spanish learning podcast on Apple  Spotify &...

Multilinguish: Talking To Animals

Multilinguish: Talking To Animals

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7 Struggles Spanish Learners Understand All Too Well

7 Struggles Spanish Learners Understand All Too Well

If you’re a Spanish learner just about anywhere in the world, you’re in pretty good comp...

How To Talk About Family In Danish

How To Talk About Family In Danish

A great deal of ink has been spilled over the Danish concept of hygge, which is way bigger than...

How To Talk About Family In Indonesian

How To Talk About Family In Indonesian

If you’re studying the language in any capacity, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to learn ho...

A Review Of The Ample Variety Of ‘Butt’ Words Across The World

A Review Of The Ample Variety Of ‘Butt’ Words Across The World

Imagine being new to the English language and learning that “badonkadonk” is a suitable ...

Spanish Grammar: When To Use Tú And Usted

Spanish Grammar: When To Use Tú And Usted

The hardest concepts to grasp in a new language are the ones that don’t have an equivalent in ...

21 American English Phrases That Are, Like, Totally Useful To Know

21 American English Phrases That Are, Like, Totally Useful To Know

English may be a global lingua franca, but the way it’s spoken is very different from place to...

How To Say ‘I’m Sorry’ In 10 Different Languages

How To Say ‘I’m Sorry’ In 10 Different Languages

Often the best way to end a fight is to admit you were wrong and apologize.  If apologizing in ...

How Babbel Kept Students Learning Languages Through the First Lockdown

How Babbel Kept Students Learning Languages Through the First Lockdown

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education systems worldwide. At the height of the pandemic, 1.5 ...

What’s The Difference Between Standard German And Swiss German?

What’s The Difference Between Standard German And Swiss German?

Switzerland has a population of around 8.5 million people, who live in an area about the size of the...

What Are The Differences In Humor Between Spanish And English?

What Are The Differences In Humor Between Spanish And English?

Early in my journey doing stand-up in the United States, a comedian approached me. He was impressed ...

How I Went About Learning A Language From Scratch

How I Went About Learning A Language From Scratch

Is there anything more daunting than learning a language from scratch? Libra here, the most indecisi...