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Dec 4, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
Every year since 2016, Babbel has partnered with TV captioning groups to determine the words that newscasters, politicians and other people in the media had the most trouble with. These mispronounced words show the names and events that dominated the conversation this year, even if part of the conversation was “How do you say that?” The list for 2024 features Irish actors, American politicians and more.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
Color words are one of the most useful tools we have for identifying things. It’s a lot easier to say “I’ll have the blue one” than “I’ll take that roundish one, with the rough edges, to the left of the rectangular one.” Thus, learning how to name and pronounce colors in German is a useful skill to have in your back pocket. Really, after figuring out how to say “hello,” it’s probably one of the first things you should conquer.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
The world is brimming with “objects,” “items,” and “things.” However, these vague terms won’t be very helpful when you’re in a foreign country trying to describe something specific. When you can’t recall the exact name of something, you’ll need an alternative way to refer to it. Fortunately, Dutch adjectives come to the rescue, providing a perfect solution.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
One of the first things you should learn when starting a new language is how to say yes and no. They’re two simple words that you’re going to need to use quite a bit. It may seem like a simple thing, but learning these phrases across as many languages as possible is probably a pretty good idea.
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May 28, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Babbel Bytes |Thomas Moore Devlin |Steph Koyfman
In 1954, a Norristown, Pennsylvania, eighth grader clinched victory with the word “transept’”at the 27th Scripps Spelling Bee Championships (held that year in Washington, D.C.).
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Babbel Bytes |Samuel Dowd |Thomas Moore Devlin
At Babbel, we’re not just about business, we’re also about making a difference. The Babbel app itself strives to make a positive social impact in countries around the world, but we believe in going the extra mile. Thus, we have a devoted group of people who make up the Impact Team. This team is the embodiment of our corporate commitment to positive social engagement and sustainability.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Babbel Bytes |Steph Koyfman |Thomas Moore Devlin
To celebrate a peculiarly British form of linguistic wordplay, Babbel launched a nationwide search to crown the punniest shop name in the United Kingdom at the end of 2023. Babbel’s linguists scoured the internet and social media to compile a shortlist of the top 120 most-shared shop pun names divided by region — from Scotland to the South East and West coast — and put it to the public to vote for their national and regional favourites.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
Of all of the challenges of learning Portuguese, there’s one thing you don’t have to worry about: not having enough resources to choose from. In fact, you might have the exact opposite problem. There are now so many ways to learn a language, it can be intimidating. Fortunately, we have an option for you: our guide to Portuguese basics. Here, we’ve compiled every resource we have for learning the language.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
The internet has made learning a language like Russian much easier. While it may have been hard to find resources for the language before, now you have a whole world of them at your fingertips. But that sets up a whole new problem: Where do you start? Enter the Russian Basics Hub! We took all of our articles about Russian and put them all in one place, which should make your life a little easier. This article is roughly organized around what your language journey might be like.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
babbel.com | Thomas Moore Devlin
How do you measure a year? In the song from Rent, you have suggestions ranging from cups of coffee to love, but what about something a bit shorter: a single word. Yes, once again language organizations around the world tried to sum up all the complexity of 2023 with just one term (admittedly many of them also list several runners up, though). Here’s our annual roundup, which captures the highs and the lows of this year, from artificial intelligence to sports wins. How would you distill the year?
