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Babbel

10 Of The Most Wonderful Winter Words

Check out this list of festive words to get you out of that winter slump.

Babbel

What Are The Most Mispronounced Words Of 2024?

What do a baseball player's dog, the song of the summer and the newest Doctor Who star have in common? They all made it to this year's list!...

Babbel

7 Italian Gestures That Could Come In Handy

An expert on nonverbal communication shares his 7 favorite Italian hand gestures.

Babbel

What Are The Most Spoken Languages In The U.S.?

Exploring America's most common languages and the geography and culture of the people who speak them.

Meta

Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta

At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers.

Babbel

15 Terrifying Boogeymen From Around The World

This Halloween, get a lesson in supernatural scare tactics from the Boogeyman and 14 of his cousins.

Babbel

Taking A Walk With New York City’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

Joyce Gold started showing people the Big Apple when Gerald Ford was still president, 47 years ago.

Babbel

Shinrin-yoku: Our 7 Favorite Forest Sayings In Other Languages

With the fall season well and truly upon us, why not don your hiking boots and head out to the forests for some verdant joie de vivre? The p...

Meta

Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based comput...

Pinterest

Meet Pinterest’s Internship Mentors of the Year

Meta

Meta is getting ready for post-quantum cryptography

The Quantum Apocalypse is coming.

Meta

Bringing Llama 3 to life

Llama 3 is Meta’s most capable openly-available LLM to date and the recently-released Llama 3.

Babbel

H2Eau: 10 Of Our Favorite Swimming Sayings In Other Languages

With temperatures all over Europe breaking heat records, why not don your goggles and head for an invigorating splash? The post H2Eau: 10 Of...

Babbel

A World Tour Of Athletics: The Most Popular Sports By Country

Spoiler: association football (or soccer) is by far the most common choice.

Babbel

How To Order Vegan Food In Other Languages While Traveling

Being vegan abroad can present challenges, but it's definitely not impossible.

Babbel

15 Sanskrit Words From The World Of Yoga

Have you ever wondered where the names of all those yoga poses have come from? In honor of International Day of Yoga, we’re exploring the ro...

Babbel

A Helpful Guide To Solo Travel For Female/LGBTQ+ Travelers

We spoke to a handful of travel bloggers, and translated some of the phrases you might need while you're abroad.

Babbel

Rediscovering Polari: How This Gay Dialect Is A Map Of Forgotten Subcultures

While Polari was a secret language for gay men, it was originally created out of a multitude of subculture dialects.

Babbel

LGBTQ+ Language And The Search For All-Inclusive Words

How increased awareness and efforts for inclusivity have fueled the evolution of LGBTQ terms and queer language.

Babbel

Rediscovering Polari: How This Secret Gay Language Helped Create LGBT Culture

The culture of Polari didn't die when this secret language did.

Babbel

Rediscovering Polari: What Is Polari And Why Did It Die Out?

What is Polari, where did it come from, and why did it become a dead language? We investigate.

Babbel

Celebrating a Milestone in Spelling History: Babbel Speaks to America’s Oldest Spelling Bee Champion

As the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee approaches, Babbel has tracked down America’s oldest Spelling Bee winner, 84-year-old William Cash...

Babbel

A Moving Abroad Checklist For A Smooth Start In A New Country

What do you need to keep in mind when you move to a new country? The post A Moving Abroad Checklist For A Smooth Start In A New Country app...

Meta

Behind the scenes of Threads for web

When Threads first launched one of the top feature requests was for a web client.

Babbel

What Is May Day?

It's a holiday that means different things to different people.

Meta

Building new custom silicon for Meta’s AI workloads

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Babbel

The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World

Almost half of the world’s population claims one of only 10 languages as their mother tongue.

Babbel

Useful Phrases For Ramadan In Arabic, Indonesian And Turkish

If you're not very familiar with Ramadan, these phrases can be a great place to start learning.

Babbel

When Music Is Multilingual: 10 Artists Who Perform In Other Languages

You don't have to be completely fluent in another language to make your music more accessible to your fans around the world.

Meta

How DotSlash makes executable deployment simpler

Andres Suarez and Michael Bolin, two software engineers at Meta, join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to discuss the ins and...

Babbel

The Language Of The Most Iconic Women’s Rights Posters

We take a look back at 100 years of fighting for women’s rights.

Babbel

The United States Of Accents: Announcer Voice And Other Radio Accents

Do radio announcers have a specific accent? You bet they do, and it hasn't always been the same.

Babbel

The United States Of Accents: Native American English

In this edition of United States of Accents, we talk about Native American English, or the Reservation Accent, and where it might have come ...

Babbel

7 Words And Expressions About The Moon From Around The World

The moon has hung in our skies since the dawn of man, so it only makes sense we'd talk a lot about it.

Babbel

The United States Of Accents: New England English

If you hear "New England Accent" and think Boston: well, not exactly.

Babbel

The United States Of Accents: Pacific Northwest English

In this installment, we're exploring the elusive but definitely real Pacific Northwest accent.

Babbel

The United States Of Accents: High Tider

In this edition, we talk about High Tider, which is considered the last existing British accent in the United States.

Meta

Meta loves Python

By now you’re already aware that Python 3.

Babbel

8 Things You Didn’t Know About The Lunar New Year

Here are just a few facts about the massive celebration that is Lunar New Year, which is celebrated by over a billion people around the worl...

Babbel

Party Around The World: How To Celebrate Carnival In 6 Languages!

What comes to mind when you think of the word "Carnival?" Colorful ferris wheels, rickety tilt-a-whirls and rigged midway games? Internation...

Babbel

What’s The Difference Between A Monologue And A Dialogue?

At first glance it's a simple concept, but there are some subtleties we'll dig into here.

Babbel

Everything You Need To Know About Language Learning And Virtual Reality

Exploring the benefits (and limits) of learning a language in virtual reality.

Babbel

7 Things You Didn’t Know About The United States’ Official Language

And while we’re at it, what is an official language, anyway? The post 7 Things You Didn’t Know About The United States’ Official Language a...

Babbel

The Language Of Self-Care: Understanding Wellness Terms In The New Year

What do all those wellness buzzwords really mean? The post The Language Of Self-Care: Understanding Wellness Terms In The New Year appeared ...

Babbel

Around The World In 2023 Words Of The Year

From rizz to crisis mode, it can be hard to boil a year down to a single word.

Babbel

An Introduction To The Turkish Language

We look at the Turkish language's similarity to other Turkic languages, the reforms that modernized it in the 20th century and its unique gr...

Babbel

What Is Grammar?

This one's for the grammar police.

Babbel

What Is A Heritage Language?

Plus, a few heritage language learning success stories.

Babbel

Which Languages Are Spoken In Spain?

Did you know that in Spain, along with Spanish there are a multitude of regional languages with several million speakers? We'll take a close...

Babbel

What Is Black Friday, And Where Is It Celebrated?

The story behind the crowds: your guide to the history of Black Friday and who takes part in it around the world.

Babbel

The Top 5 Tips For Your Study Abroad

Jumpstart your study abroad with these key tips.

Babbel

The Role Of Language Learning In Global Citizenship Education

Being a global citizen doesn't just mean traveling around.

Meta

How Meta built Threads in 5 months

In about five short months, a small team of engineers at Meta took Threads, the new text-based conversations app, from from an idea to the m...

Babbel

How To Use Emotional Intelligence When Learning A Language

An important part of learning a language is focusing on emotions — both your own and other people's.

Babbel

12 Items You Need To Know To Understand Día De Muertos

There's much more to the Day of the Dead than just sugar skulls and an altar.

Babbel

10 Spooky Halloween Facts That You Might Not Know

Halloween celebrations are fun and spooky in all the right ways.

Pinterest

Makeathon 2023

Babbel

Bodega, Pie And On Line: New York Slang And Tips For Visiting The Big Apple

A must-read if you're planning a trip to the city.

Babbel

10 Wonderful Fall Words From Around The World

Put the kettle on, get cozy and embrace the fall season with 10 autumnal words from around the world.

Meta

How Meta is creating custom silicon for AI

Olivia Wu, Meta’s Technical Lead for Infra Silicon, discusses the design and development of Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator...

Babbel

The Meaning of FOMO, YOLO And More

You probably won't have any FOMO for using acronyms after this article.

Babbel

Everything You Need To Know About Oktoberfest

Plus, some helpful German vocab to know while you're celebrating.

Babbel

French Slang Words You Need To Know

French slang AKA "The language of misery" - Les Misérables The post French Slang Words You Need To Know appeared first on Babbel.

Pinterest

Pinternship Wrap-Up: Summer 2023

Babbel

11 Books Every Wanderluster Should Read Before Traveling

Plus, a few movie and TV show recommendations.

Babbel

Touring The Niche Language Communities Of New York City

You don't have to travel far in New York to find a diverse linguistic landscape.

Babbel

16 National Dishes And How To Order Them

This is for people hungry for knowledge.

Meta

Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app

Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app.

Babbel

Everything You Need To Know About The Maltese Language

A fascinating language that tells a lot about Malta’s history.

Babbel

The World’s Most Obscure Ologies

The etymology of -ology.

Meta

What’s it like to write code at Meta?

Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@pass...

Babbel

A Quick Introduction To Cognitive Linguistics

How does the brain process and create language? The post A Quick Introduction To Cognitive Linguistics appeared first on Babbel.

Babbel

The World’s Unspoken Languages

Let's speak about the unspoken.

Babbel

Farewell Elmer And Wilma: The Once-Popular U.S. Baby Names That Went Extinct

Plus, a look at the emerging names that might be popular in the future.

Babbel

When Did Middle English Become Modern English?

Also, how different are the two, really? The post When Did Middle English Become Modern English? appeared first on Babbel.

Babbel

A Cultural History Of Coffee

It's more than just hot bean water.

Babbel

How Dogs Bark In Other Languages

You may be barking up the wrong tree.

Pinterest

Create the engineering career you love at Pinterest

Babbel

Where Did The Planets Get Their Names?

To infinity and beyond.

Babbel

Fillers And Interjections: The Stepping Stones To Fluency

Ummm like what are fillers and interjections anyways.

Babbel

What Is Bastille Day, And Why Is It Celebrated?

Celebrating revolution with fireworks, parades and parties? You might think you're in the United States if you're not paying attention.

Babbel

When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

Technically, they never did, but the answer is more complicated than that.

Babbel

Späti, Kiez, Paletti — Berlin Slang And Tips For Visiting The City On The Spree

Time to get ready for your journey! The post Späti, Kiez, Paletti — Berlin Slang And Tips For Visiting The City On The Spree appeared first...

Babbel

How Do Humans Acquire A Language?

A quick look at some theories of first- and second-language acquisition.

Babbel

How To Learn A Language For Your Summer Vacation

Be prepared for the perfect getaway by using these tips to learn a language for your vacation.

Babbel

8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The 4th Of July

Odds are pretty good you'll be eating a hot dog on the 4th.

Babbel

Do Emotions In Other Languages Mean Different Things?

What difference does it make whether we can name our feelings or not? The post Do Emotions In Other Languages Mean Different Things? appeare...

Babbel

10 Cat Idioms From 11 Different Languages

Humans and cats have lived side by side for so long, they've managed to creep their way into our language.

Babbel

The Ultimate Babbel Guide To Travel

So you want to be a seasoned world traveler.

Babbel

8 Festive Summer Traditions From Around The World

Bored of hot dogs and Six Flags? Here's how the rest of the world tips its hat to summer.

Babbel

An Introduction To Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics And Their Connections To Language

While both linguistic anthropology and ethnolinguistics are fields that focus on the study of language, they do so in slightly different way...

Dropbox

Here's the latest version of our Engineering Career Framework

Uber

How My Uber Internship Expanded My Horizons

A former engineering intern recounts how working at Uber opened up their creative and professional horizons, expanding and enriching any pre...