WHAT reader in their right mind would buy a novel called New Finish Grammar? Moreover, the cover of this edition looks like it was designed on that tacky computer programme students use to make ...

The premise of New Finnish Grammar is inspired: a wounded soldier is found by a German crew on the quay at Trieste in September, 1943. He has no identification on him, no memory whatsoever and, ...

Diego Marani is a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels and the inventor of Europanto, a jokey lingua franca. No surprise then to find that his most celebrated novel, published in Italian ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Diego Marani is a lover of language and became a bit of a Euro-celebrity for inventing a mock language ...

The title is odd, the cover is grey and the author is a besuited Eurocrat. But beneath these unflamboyant exteriors lie a colourful story. It has taken 10 years, the dedication of a small UK publisher ...

A fresh report finds that some young Swedish speakers in Finland are more comfortable in English than they are in Finnish. Swedish-speaking pupils in Helsinki told Yle they don’t learn enough spoken ...

Diego Marani is a lover of language and became a bit of a Euro-celebrity for inventing a mock language called Europanto, a tossed salad of every European language without rules or grammar. He's also ...