Colour words in many languages. This section contains the colour words that have been indentified in various studies as the most common across most languages, although the actual colours represented by each of the colour words are not nescessarily exactly the same. For example, in Greek and Russian there are two words for blue corresponding to light blue and dark blue, and these colours are considered and perceived as separate. In other languages there are overlaps between blue, green and grey, or red, orange and brown.
Colour words in individual languages Austroasiatic languages Vietnamese Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Filipino, Tuvaluan Dravidian languages Telugu Indo-European languages Celtic languages Irish (Gaelic), Scottish Gaelic Germanic languages Afrikaans Dutch, German Romance languages French, Italian, Spanish Niger-Congo languages Bantu languages Xhosa Language isolates Japanese Links Lists of colours Multilingual pages. Languages - Event - The European Day of Languages, 26th September. Omniglot - the guide to languages, alphabets and other writing systems. Learning Foreign Languages boosts brain power. OK so this is nothing new and I am not posting anything that people don't know already.
There are thousands of articles online such as this one that say that when one learns a new languages the brain becomes permanently altered in the same way that exercise alters your muscles, and the fitter you become. But what's interesting about that article is that they say it matters WHEN you started to learn the second language, the younger the better. I'm not sure that I agree that it's easier for young people to learn a language. From everything that I've read the only main advantage of learning a language young is being about to replicate the native accent, something that's almost impossible to do after the age of about 10 or 12.
However, I can only speak for myself when I say that being bilingual since I was a child has helped immensely with my spelling and pronunciation/reading. I'm not saying this to say oh how great and wonderful and smart and I am. Enough talking about myself. My comments: Comparative table of languages and language profiles for the prospective learner.
How to learn any language. Lingu@net. Podcasts, radio, mp3.