{"id":381,"date":"2011-07-12T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=381"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:59:59","slug":"language-facts-for-you-to-brag-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2011\/07\/12\/language-facts-for-you-to-brag-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Facts for You to Brag About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transparent Connect is passionate about languages, and to showcase our love, we&#8217;re giving you some language &#8220;fun facts&#8221; to share with others throughout your day!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fact: There was no standardized punctuation until the 15th century.<\/li>\n<li>Fact: The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.<\/li>\n<li>Fact:\u00a0 At least half of the world\u2019s population are bilingual or multilingual (i.e. they speak two or more languages).<\/li>\n<li>Fact: Bilingualism brings with it many benefits: it makes the learning of additional languages easier, enhances the thinking process and fosters contacts with other people and their cultures.<\/li>\n<li>Fact: According to research, on average, people who use languages in their jobs earn around 8% more!<\/li>\n<li>Fact: We&#8217;re announcing the addition of 8 new languages to our online courses, bringing us to a total of 15 available languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparent Connect is passionate about languages, and to showcase our love, we&#8217;re giving you some language &#8220;fun facts&#8221; to share with others throughout your day! Fact: There was no standardized punctuation until the 15th century. Fact: The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese. Fact:\u00a0 At least half&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2011\/07\/12\/language-facts-for-you-to-brag-about\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[542801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}