Based on their experience training US diplomats, the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) divided all the languages they teach into four distinct categories. The higher the category, the "harder" the ...

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Maps of the world are typically written with the language of the viewer in mind. But the zoomable Endonym Map takes a different approach, writing each country’s name in one of that country’s own ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you plan on traveling internationally, you might be surprised to see what countries have for their second language. This interactive map makes it ...

Believe it or not, Google Maps has only supported a limited set of languages so far. A bit ironic for a service that helps you navigate the planet, don't you think? That might not be a problem for ...

California is home to one of the world’s largest South Asian diasporas, with nearly a million people — one in every five South Asians in the United States — calling the state home. And the number of ...