Here are five languages that I have found out about and that have some interesting things about them:

Riau Indonesian – this language has an extremely simple grammar that is considered to be one of the simplest in the world by linguists. The language has been used as a universal language between non-native speakers and that might be the reason . The famous example is “ayam makan” (literally: chicken eat) which can mean “I eat chicken”, “chicken eats”, “I ate …

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Since I became interested in making this site and this blog, I have looked at what quite a lot of other bloggers are doing. I have grown to like some of the blogs and I have subscribed to quite a few of them. I thought I would list some of the blogs I am subscribed to and provide short descriptions of them.
I will not list all of the blogs on my list now because that would be too large of …

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Learning languages in a limited amount of time – is it possible? Well, some people do it. I want to collect a small list of personal stories of people who have done this from the web and link to them here. Here goes:

Chinese in Two Years – a story that I have found in Aspiring Polyglot’s blog about a guy who has learnt Chinese from scratch in two years. Well, pretty impressive, considering it’s Chinese and not some Romance language …

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