Why I’m learning Esperanto

I’ve always been interested in languages. It’s probably the single thing that most powerfully demonstrates human diversity and represents the gateway to understanding the world better.  If there is one free skill I’d love to have for no effort in return, it would be fluency in one or more other languages.  I am not fluent…

The campaign for simpler German

Did you know that the German word for “queen bee”, Weisel, is a masculine noun? Yes, that great animal world icon of matriarchy… is masculine. Nicole told me this odd factoid the other day as she studied a German language book. One thing we were very aware of on our recent trip to Austria was…