Tagged: language

Bloody Brilliant! An English Dictionary for Americans Traveling in Britain

Globalization and digital connectedness notwithstanding, the English spoken in England still differs significantly from the English spoken in the United States. Any American traveler…

Merriam-Webster Creates a Fun Online Word Game for Travelers

Every time we speak, we travel. English is a polyglot language derived from many tongues and made of an ever-expanding lexicon of borrowed words picked up like souvenirs from all…

The Word Is Out: Language Museum Opens in D.C.

UPDATE, October 23, 2020: Originally scheduled to open in the spring of 2020, the Planet Word language museum in Washington, D.C., began welcoming visitors on Thursday, October 22,…

Fluent Forever App Offers Two Free Months of Language Lessons for Frommer’s Readers

UPDATED APRIL 13, 2020 While you're stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, here's something you can do to enrich your future travels exponentially: Learn a new language. To…

Binge Listen! We Love These Travel Podcasts on Nature, Food, Culture, and More

Like travel, podcasts give you a chance to roam far and wide, meeting new people, discovering different places, and pursuing every conceivable interest to an obsessive degree. But with…

Books, Games, Apps, and Activities to Get Kids Excited About Travel

Travel is exciting. Fairy-tale castles, markets filled with colorful produce and fragrant spices, rickshaws speeding along narrow streets, and lions asleep in the shade of acacia trees…

Study: Booze Boosts Foreign Language Skills

Alcohol improves your ability to speak a foreign language, according to a new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. Researchers from the University of Liverpool, Maastricht…