From the most widely spoken language in the world (Mandarin, Chinese), to the little-known Galego spoken in Galicia, Spain, the following list covers how to say “one more beer please” in 50 different languages.

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As a speaker of 10 languages I know the benefits of speaking more than one language. We simply have to change the way we go about teaching languages. To start with we need to dispel seven common misconceptions about language learning.

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Language is perhaps the most important function of the human body - it allows us to get sustenance as a child, it allows us to get virtually anything we want as an adult, and it allows us many hours of entertainment through literature, radio, music, and films. This list (in order of least to most spoken) summarizes the most important languages in use today.

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Perhaps the most useful skill you can carry is knowledge of the local language.  […] There are a number of excellent internet sites devoted to language study, most of them providing their services for free.

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One of the many languages that had spiced up the English language is Indian. In fact, some of these Indian words have become so much part of the language that it is quite easy for us to forget their Indian origin.

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While some insults are broadly accessible, like your mom, others will require a little background for the new student. Thus, we offer this helpful guide to the best and most vulgar (and very real) insults from around the world:

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Thankfully, there are a wide variety of ways to learn languages online, many of them available for free. Below is a list of more than 20 ways you can go from knowing how to say “Hello” to fluency.

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Well, it’s hard to teach wit - but all of us can learn the next best thing: the approximation of it by obfuscation, i.e. using big, difficult, and obscure words. So, to do our part in improving the quality of insults on teh Interweb, Neatorama has come up with a list of 10 Insulting Words You Should Know:

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James Dean is an iconic figure of legendary proportions. He took up lots of space (both physical and psychological) and his body language simultaneously conveyed extreme confidence and boyish vulnerability.

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We’re all for being worldly, but we’re also amazed and amused by the wonderful mistakes people around the world make with that verbal stew known as English.  Here are some of the best we found on the Web, but feel free to send us your own discoveries.

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A lot of the English language seems to have been developed as some kind of elaborate practical joke. It’s full of little sayings and idioms that on their face make no sense at all, and if traced back to their origins are downright horrifying. Right or wrong, these 10 sayings have some of the strangest (and most unsettling) histories:

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