Languages

Language content on Globerove is for travelers who want enough words to be polite, not enough to pass an exam. the articles here cover survival phrases that actually get used at borders and in markets, scripts worth learning to recognize before a trip, and the awkward middle ground where a phrasebook fails and a sentence finally works.

A few pieces look at language families, why some neighbors understand each other and others do not, and the regional dialects that surprise visitors who learned the textbook version. Pieces also handle the etiquette of using English in places where younger speakers want practice and older ones do not. The tone is curious rather than academic.