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French sociologist Michel Maffesoli described small groups of individuals bought together by shared interests, beliefs and identities as urban tribes.

The European Day of Languages is celebrated each year on 26 September. It was set up in 2001 to celebrate the diversity of language-speaking in Europe.

Words themselves don’t just pop out of nowhere. There’s always a logic to them, whether borrowed, stolen or the product of invention.

In earlier times, farmers took full advantage of the Harvest Moon’s extended moonlight, which enabled them to continue harvesting crops late into the evening.

Researchers are still discovering new and profound intricacies of linguistic changes.

Whatever your reason for learning a language, find a method that you find most engaging and stick with it.

Over the course of the 20th century, technology’s influence on writing wasn’t so much in what was written or the words we used but rather in the manner in which we wrote.

Take a critical perspective of language, imagery, music, or themes, which all will have been crafted to appeal to a particular audience.

In La Tomatina features a greased pole climbing contest before over ripe tomatoes are handed out for the grand finale – an hour of tomato throwing.

The English dictionary isn’t the first, there are instances of dictionaries from Sumerian times, with the oldest surviving being a Chinese one from the 3rd century BCE.