Khulan speaking Mongolian
Short | 1 months ago
Khulan shares how traveling across the Mongolian countryside has deepened her appreciation for the culture, history, and landscapes that shape life throughout Mongolia. *Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and belongs to the Mongolic language fam...
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Jenni speaking Finnish
Short | 2 months ago
Travel can completely reshape our understanding of what’s considered normal social behavior. Experiencing different cultures can reveal that friendliness, connection, and communication don’t look the same everywhere in the world. *Finnish is a Uralic langua...
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Jenni speaking Finnish
Short | 2 months ago
American social norms can sometimes lead Finns to be misunderstood. When friendliness is expressed through constant conversation, a more reserved style can be mistaken for coldness, even when it’s not intended that way at all. *Finnish is a Uralic language,...
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Jenni speaking Finnish
Short | 2 months ago
Small talk in Finland isn't as customary as it is in the United States where casual conversation is often expected in everyday interactions. And what may be perceived as "quiet" or "distant" to Americans can actually feel completely normal in Finnish cultur...
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Can comic books keep the Incan language alive? | Wikitongues Fellows #3
Video | 2 months ago
Start learning a language with Lingopie today—55% off + 7 days FREE: https://learn.lingopie.com/wikitongues. Meet Nicaela and discover how she’s helping revitalize Quechua, the language of the Incas. Wikitongues Fellows are saving their languages and keepin...
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Arbëresh: The Albanian Diaspora that Preserved a Medieval Language | Wikitongues Fellows #2
Stream | 3 months ago
To prevent language extinction, Wikitongues invests in language activists, accelerates endangered language revitalization, and defends multilingualism worldwide. Wikitongues Fellows are saving their languages and keeping their cultures alive. We started the...
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Stela speaking the Esperanto language
Short | 4 months ago
Around 2 million people speak Esperanto as a second language, using it to communicate across cultures, but for Stela, Esperanto is a native language—one her parents taught her, which she uses to connect with the world in her daily life. *Esperanto is a cons...
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Stela speaking the Esperanto language
Short | 4 months ago
Esperanto has allowed Stela to connect with people across countries and cultures, opening doors to new languages and perspectives. It’s both a way of speaking and a bridge to a broader world. *Esperanto is a constructed language designed by L.L. Zamenhoff i...
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Stela speaking the Esperanto language
Short | 4 months ago
Esperanto is a constructed language designed by L.L. Zamenhoff in 1887. Zamenhoff created Esperanto by merging elements of Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages, with the goal of promoting peace and cross-cultural understanding in Europe, and one day, the...
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Lucy speaking Igbo | Igboid | Nigeria | Wikitongues
Video | 4 months ago
Igbo is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. Igbo languages are spoken by a total of 31 million people. The number of Igboid languages depends on how one classifies a language versus a dialect, ...
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Wanyu speaking Mandarin
Short | 4 months ago
Wanyu developed her Northeast (Dongbei) accent growing up in Changchun, in northeastern China. Accents often act as markers of home and tie people to the rhythms and identities of their hometowns. *With 990 million native speakers, Mandarin is among the mos...
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Wanyu speaking Mandarin
Short | 4 months ago
Wanyu’s Northeast (Dongbei) accent connects her to Changchun, even as moving to Beijing and later New York changed the way she speaks and how she understands home. Though her accent has softened over time, it remains a meaningful link to where she comes fro...
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