Homepage
Open in app
Sign in
Get started
BABEL
Babel aims to be the leading language-centric publication on Medium, dedicated to celebrating the captivating diversity of human languages.
Language
Linguistics
Translation
Language Learning
Language Teaching
The Arts of Expression
The Global World
Follow
Write for The Babel
Click for submission guidelines
Why We May Never Speak a Universal Language
Why We May Never Speak a Universal Language
One language to bind or rule them all?
Rui Alves
Oct 10
The Babel Paradox — A Highly Relevant Yet Overlooked Topic
The Babel Paradox — A Highly Relevant Yet Overlooked Topic
Why we need to set the record straight about languages
Rui Alves
Oct 8
As a Japanese Person, I Am Yet to Find My Accent in London
As a Japanese Person, I Am Yet to Find My Accent in London
The influence of languages and accents on our identity
Yuri Minamide
Oct 7
There Are No Limits in Languages
There Are No Limits in Languages
Join the Babel and come write with us
Rui Alves
Oct 6
Cinema: Subjective, Objective Points of View
Cinema: Subjective, Objective Points of View
A character rendered the conduit into story
Peter Markham
Oct 1
Why Is Esperanto So Easy for Romance Language Speakers?
Why Is Esperanto So Easy for Romance Language Speakers?
As a language teacher, I see Esperanto as a lever for learning new languages
Rui Alves
Oct 1
The Case for Cyrillic
The Case for Cyrillic
Why we shouldn’t be afraid to study really difficult languages
Trevor Whitaker
Oct 1
Surzhyk: Wherever It Was Sowed, It Will Grow
Surzhyk: Wherever It Was Sowed, It Will Grow
Surzhyk is a Ukrainian–Russian pidgin commonly spoken in most of eastern and southern Ukraine’s rural areas
Kateryna Ustiuhova
Sep 30
Portuguese Culture Through Language
Portuguese Culture Through Language
Self-teaching is a circular, pebbly path
Islander
Sep 18
Why It’s So Hard to Learn a Language
Why It’s So Hard to Learn a Language
Why we’re teaching language the wrong way
Trevor Whitaker
Sep 17
About BABEL
Latest Stories
Archive
About Medium
Terms
Privacy
Teams
