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Learn Hindi, the language that bridges the oldest culture in the world and the modern worldwide phenomenon of Bollywood. Hindi is the official language of India, with English being the other official language. Although there are several regional languages, Hindi is used by the largest number of people as their first language. Many elements of India's diverse cultures, such as its religions, cuisin...

Hungarian is a unique language that stands out as very different from its Germanic and Slavic neighbors, due to its historic connection with the Magyars from thousands of years ago. The Seven chieftains of the Magyars (or Hungarians) were the leaders of the seven tribes at the time of their arrival in the Carparthian Basin in 895 AD. As a result, Hungary is known as the nation of horsemen. This lo...

If you learn Icelandic, you will have a very strong understanding of Old Norse, the mother of all Scandinavian languages. Icelandic has remained more or less untouched since medieval times, and 12th century texts can be understood even now. From the ancient Icelandic sagas, to the haunting music of modern day Björk, the Icelanders celebrate their culture, and protect the purity of the language. B...

The Igbo (pronounced EE-bo) are the second largest group of people living in southern Nigeria. Although they live in scattered groups of villages, they all speak one language, despite their social and cultural diversity. The high and low tones of their musical language is mirrored in their love of wind and string instruments, such as the ugene (clay whistle) and ubaw-akwala (triangular wooden guit...

Learning Indonesian, or Bahasa Indonesia, is so much easier than learning Asian languages such as Thai, Japanese and Chinese. The first thing you will notice is that is has the Roman alphabet, so no new script to wrap your head around. Plus Indonesian has no tones, no gender and no tenses, so it just gets better and better. It's pretty similar to the language of its neighbor: Malaysia, Brunei, and...

Gaeilge or Irish is the national and first official language of Ireland. Although everyone in Ireland speaks English, there are regions (the Gaeltacht) where Irish is absolutely the everyday language of communication. So as a courtesy, you really should be able to speak a few words of the Gaeilge! The Irish culture is as rich as its language, with its mystical myths and magical legends, and tradit...

The Japanese are known for their love of design, precision and mastery. Learn to speak the language of innovation and design, and open up the door to the culture of sushi, sudoku, manga, anime, martial arts, computer games and origami. On the one hand, Japan has the 2nd largest economy in the world, with world famous innovative brands in manufacturing etc. On the other hand, its language and cultu...

Just like its architecture, richly revealed by archaeological finds, the Albanian language has its origins in antiquity. The architecture of Albania is the most important evidence of the Albanians' history, culture and identity, enriched with Roman, Ancient Greek, Byzantine, Venetian, Ottoman and Western elements. Similarly, the Albanian language has been written with a variety of alphabets over t...

Afrikaans is such a beautiful and incredibly easy language to learn. Besides its easy sentence structure and grammar (there are only 3 tenses), the spelling is also almost purely phonetic and there is no gender. Imagine the iconic Table Mountain overlooking Cape Town, the birthplace of Afrikaans. Afrikaans is the daughter language of Dutch and the term "Afrikaans" is actually Dutch for African. Ne...

Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and the second most spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. Amharic uses an abugida, which a writing system based on the pairing of consonants with vowels. This means there is no one way to translate it into the Latin alphabet, so learning the spoken language is really important. Did you know? Ethiopia is the only African country with its own...