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Funny place names? Think yourself lucky you don't live in Bu****le lane….

From Bottom Burn to Bonkle, new map shows Britain's rudest place names We've always known Britain had some odd and often rude place names, but this is ridiculous.

12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need.

12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss Preface by Tim Ferriss I've written about how I learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish. I've also covered my experiments with German, Indonesian, Arabic, Norwegian, Turkish,...

"Boo, boo!", went the pig….

Why do pigs oink in English, boo boo in Japanese, and nöff-nöff in Swedish? It’s not just pigs, the onomatopoeia we apply to most animal sounds varies delightfully across different tongues. What does this reveal about our relationship with language?

Remembering the dead of the World Wars in an amazing and poignant graphic. http://buff.ly/1Ept3yl

Poppy Field The Great War did not 'end all wars' - Poppy Field visualises war fatalities from the beginning of the 20th Century. Credits: http://poppyfield.org by Valentina D'Efilippo and Nicolas Pigelet

A useful mind map of English tenses.

ENGLISH TENSES

New York, a graveyard for languages… http://buff.ly/1sru2IM

New York, a graveyard for languages New York City is believed to be home to over 800 different languages but many are spoken in very small numbers and some by only a handful and are in real danger of dying out.

3 Tips to Practise and Improve Your English - by a Learner of English I am often asked by learners, including my clients, what is the best way to practise and consequently improve their English Language skills. My response often varies depending on who the learner is...

As a language learner do you want to learn the slang of a language? Or the dialect? Meet the woman who thinks we should! http://buff.ly/10UejLI

The Colombian who teaches Colombian A video blogger stands up for the way Colombians who live by the Caribbean coast speak.

Age is just a number… and other top tips for language learning! http://buff.ly/1wW4wiL

Learning a language – 10 things you need to know Thinking about learning a foreign language? From ignoring your age to avoiding the F-word, our multilingual experts share their tips

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Language learners, you are S*XY! It's official… http://buff.ly/1wpAbLP

Yes! Oui! Si! Learning new words activates same part of brain as S*X Researchers from Barcelona's Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and Otto von Guericke University in Germany found people who learn new words trigger the brain's ventral striatum.

Any Game of Thrones' fans out there? Ever wondered what it would be like to learn Dothraki? Wonder no more… http://buff.ly/1tNoYV2

How I tried (and failed) to learn the Dothraki language from Game of Thrones Speaking like a horselord from the HBO series is tougher than it looks, it turns out