Portuguese is one of Europe’s world languages. With more than 200 million native speakers in Brazil alone, as compared to just over 10 million in Europe itself, Portuguese shares the […]
European languages
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When Columbus “discovered” America on behalf of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492, he paved the way for Spanish to become the dominant language of Latin America. But Spanish […]
Did you know that Picasso did not grow up speaking Spanish, that Richard Burton did not grow up speaking English and that Napoleon did not grow up speaking French? Nor […]
The Romans never made it up as far north as Scandinavia, and Christianity arrived late, so the languages in Europe’s far north did not undergo the influence of Latin that […]
Italian has about 70 million speakers in Italy. The language has the capacity to lift even people who cannot understand a word of the language to soaring heights in the […]
For over two centuries now, English has continued to advance at a phenomenal pace as the dominant language in numerous areas affecting the lives of people around the world: in […]
Within the European Community, Greek has the unique distinction of being a language spoken uninterruptedly for four thousand years. It has been a written language for over three thousand years, […]
German has more native speakers in Europe than any other language in the European Union: nearly one hundred million, most of whom live in the Federal Republic and Austria. Well […]