We’ve just recently bridged our existing Discord community with the Matrix! Matrix is a communication platform similar to Discord. However, what sets the Matrix apart is that it’s hosted on a federated, decentralized, and open source network. What does this...
If you have embarked on your Chinese-language learning journey, you have surely found that it requires a lot of patience and practice. The average number of characters a person must master to be considered literate is somewhere between 2,000 ~...
What’s A Chinese Cultural Circle Or Sinosphere? Even until today, Chinese characters are present in the Japanese and the Korean writing systems although they actually sound quite different. If you happen to speak some Chinese, you might be able to...
Whenever I mention that I know sign language, the reaction I get from most people is usually something like “Oh that’s so cool!” It’s definitely a unique language but it’s also one that is fairly unknown. As a result, people...
Why can’t you learn a language well? It’s not entirely your fault. Learning a foreign language is supposed to help people widen their perspective and take the first step towards understanding other people living on the other side of the...
As a Singaporean, Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English) is a true representation of our multicultural society. It is seamlessly integrated in many of our daily conversations and it can be understood by all Singaporeans, regardless of your race...
French, or français, is ranked the third most useful business language after English and Mandarin Chinese. It belongs to the same language family as English and Spanish (Indo-European), and is considered the most internationally significant Romance language. French is the...
The German language, or Deutsch, is the official language of Germany and Austria. It is also one of the co-official languages of Switzerland. To date, there are approximately 140 million people across Europe and around the world who speak the...
The Spanish language (español or castellano) is the world’s second most spoken native language, with nearly 500 million native speakers worldwide. In fact, Spanish is the official language in 18 American countries, along with Spain, and Equatorial Guinea in Africa. ...
A blooming era of digitalisation and the outrageous covid-19 pandemic have firmly asserted E-commerce development. Now electronic shopping carts prevail in all corners of the world. Being specialised in E-commerce operations, as well as a nerdy language lover, I am...