I polyglot this

Native French speaker, fluent in English and Spanish, I also speak Italian, some German and I'm learning Russian. I can't make up my mind between teaching and translating so I've decided to do both

[witchofeindor]

So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

[hot-firebender-archive]

holy fuck

[twilight-blossom]

I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:

Akkadian

Arabic

Aramaic

Church Slavonic

Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)

Elamite

Ethiopic (Ge’ez)

Etruscan

Gaulish

Georgian

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hittite

Latin

Mayan (various related languages/dialects)

Old Chinese

Old English

Old French

Old Frisian

Old High German

Old Irish

Old Norse

Old Persian

Old Turkic

Sanskrit

Sumerian

Syriac

Ugaritic

For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.

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Langblr Follow Train (May 2020)

Let’s start a langblr follow train to find new langblrs/lingblrs to follow and befriend! 🚂 1. Only langblrs (blogs about languages) and lingblrs (blogs about linguistics), please! 2. Reblog this post before 31.5.2020! 3. Follow some blogs that have reblogged this post! 4. Make new friends!

[wanderlustlanguages]

TEDTalks related to language (learning)

because (sometimes) they motivate me

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

The secrets of learning a new language | Lýdia Machová

How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity

Learning a language? Speak it like you’re playing a video game | Marianna Pascal | TEDxPenangRoad

Why We Struggle Learning Languages | Gabriel Wyner | TEDxNewBedford

5 techniques to speak any language | Sid Efromovich | TEDxUpperEastSide

Breaking the language barrier | Tim Doner | TEDxTeen 2014

How to learn any language easily | Matthew Youlden | TEDxClapham

The Irish Language and Beauty | Dónall Ó Héalaí | TEDxBerkeley

How to Talk Like a Native Speaker | Marc Green | TEDxHeidelberg

How the language you speak affects your thoughts

Hacking Language Learning: Dr. Conor Quinn at TEDxDirigo

How learning German taught me the link between maths and poetry | Harry Baker | TEDxVienna

We'r Needin tae Talk Aboot Wir Language | Michael Dempster | TEDxInverness

One Simple Method to Learn Any Language | Scott Young & Vat Jaiswal | TEDxEastsidePrep

Learning a Second Language | Shinyoung Grace Kim | TEDxYouth@AISR

Let me know if I missed your favourite!

[tchaikovskaya]

french people will really be like “our société? culturally catholique? mais non, this country is laïque there is no public religion to be found here!” and then 5 minutes later say “oh we do not work tomorrow because it is *checks french fonction publique calendrier* the feast of the assumption of the holy virgin mary so every public building in the whole entire country is closed :)”

[tchaikovskaya]

idk which is funnier, the fact that 90% of the french people reblogging this agree and think its funny or the other 10% who are Très Bouleversé™ writing entire essays correcting me. 

like i know you people have argumentative writing skills drilled into your head by the french education system from the age of 10 or whatever but please calmez-vous lol

[wonderful-language-sounds]

SemesterRus: App for the TORFL Exam

If anyone here is a beginner in Russian (A1-B1) and plans on taking the Test of Russian as a Foreign Language Exam (TORFL/ТРКИ), there is an app that helps to to prepare for it.

The courses are based on Russian as a foreign language State Exam System and are aimed to provide the balanced knowledge of the language while developing your skills in Speaking, Reading, Writing and Listening Comprehension.

iOS || Android  || Website

[haxyr3]

Learn About Russian Impressionism and Avant-Garde - The Moscow Times

The Museum of Russian Impressionism is one of Moscow's best private museums.

We won’t be able to visit Moscow and enjoy its museums in the near future, but we can learn about the Russian Impressionism right now, from the convenience of our homes. And for free. 

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All i want is… financial stability.. nice skin…. fluency in my target languages…

[i-polyglot-this]

Franglais is a show by English comedian Paul Taylor about his life in France. It’s really funny and you can work on your English and your French at the same time while watching it.

[i-polyglot-this]

L'excellence de l'enseignement supérieur pour des cours en ligne, gratuits et ouverts à tous

Bored? How about following MOOCS in French? France Université Numérique offers many different courses on all sorts of subjects. And if you look up FLE, you’ll find classes for people who are learning French. 

Enjoy!

[i-polyglot-this]

From technical vocab to slagging off the neighbours, we've all learned some new words and phrases during France's coronavirus lockdown, here are our favourites.

Though to be fair, I think râler is not specific to the current situation, we do that all the time 

[i-polyglot-this]

Hey guys, if you have questions about France, French or language learning, my inbox is waiting for you :)

[i-polyglot-this]

My Friend : *loves BTS*

Me : so, when are you going to learn Korean?

My Friend : why would I do that?

Me : Because just hearing you talk about them makes me want to learn Korean

[i-polyglot-this]

Me: what's that Netflix? A Turkish drama, why not?

Me, after one episode : ok then, let's add Turkish on Duolingo

[i-polyglot-this]

I went to see a French movie called Les Traducteurs, about translators confined to a bunker to translate the last book of a bestselling trilogy. Tbh I only wanted to see it because I'm a translator and the friends who were with me are also translators. But we'll never know how it ends because a fire alarm interrupted the screening 😭

If you've seen it, please feel free to message me the ending

[haxyr3]

are тут and здесь interchangeable? I've seen both mean "here". The same question for возле and около which are translated as "near". are they interchangeable?

Hi! Indeed, здесь and тут both mean “here”, and they are interchangeable. However, здесь means just “here, at close proximity”, while тут is usually about “in my personal space, concerning me personally”. Communicative linguists (me included) believe that Russian speakers pick тут when speaking about things that are of their immediate interest, something that is included in their personal area (literally or figuratively), while здесь is just about something being here.  I am not 100% sure about около and возле, but intuitively, I think, около is more intimate, personal than возле. Возле is about just being near, while около is more homey, personal. I did not read the specific communicative analysis for these two words, so this is just my guess.

If you are wondering how linguists perform the analysis - they have tons of scripts of actual dialogues between native speakers with the context explained. Also as an experiment, they offer native speakers to replace one element with another and ask speakers if it is possible, and if so, what is the difference. That helps to make the communicative meaning more obvious. 

[i-polyglot-this]

Bonjour ! Quick question

IF you're a native English speaker: when you hear the word roach, does it make you think about an insect or a fish?

IF you're NOT a native English speaker, what is the name of Geralt's horse in the Witcher in your language and what does it mean/refer to?

In French the horse is called Ablette which is a small fish

Thank you in advance for your help! 😀

[i-polyglot-this]

Thank you all for your help. See, I watched The Witcher in English and his horse is called Roach but I'm French so I read the books in French and his horse is called Ablette, which is a fish. I found that rather strange so I looked up the name in the original Polish, it was Płotka. Now, I don't speak Polish so I just used basic Internet search and got this:

Maybe someone who speaks Polish can confirm or add information here? But yes, that's how I found out a roach is a type of fish. To me it was strange because I thought it meant roach as in cockroach but I just wanted to check if it was the same for native speakers. Anyway, here I am now, wondering why the translator picked that name knowing that it meant something else to most people...

Oh and I also looked up the horse's name in other languages just to check

[i-polyglot-this]

I don't remember who asked what type of fish a roach is so here you go

The funny thing is that in French this fish is called a gardon but there is an expression, "frais comme un gardon" which would translate as something like "fresh as a daisy" and it would give the name a rather positive connotation, which isn't the case with the original name so the translator changed it for ablette, another small fish but often associated in common language with being skinny and not very strong. And to me that makes so much more sense than keeping with a literal translation.

[i-polyglot-this]

Bonjour ! Quick question

IF you're a native English speaker: when you hear the word roach, does it make you think about an insect or a fish?

IF you're NOT a native English speaker, what is the name of Geralt's horse in the Witcher in your language and what does it mean/refer to?

In French the horse is called Ablette which is a small fish

Thank you in advance for your help! 😀

[i-polyglot-this]

Thank you all for your help. See, I watched The Witcher in English and his horse is called Roach but I'm French so I read the books in French and his horse is called Ablette, which is a fish. I found that rather strange so I looked up the name in the original Polish, it was Płotka. Now, I don't speak Polish so I just used basic Internet search and got this:

Maybe someone who speaks Polish can confirm or add information here? But yes, that's how I found out a roach is a type of fish. To me it was strange because I thought it meant roach as in cockroach but I just wanted to check if it was the same for native speakers. Anyway, here I am now, wondering why the translator picked that name knowing that it meant something else to most people...

Oh and I also looked up the horse's name in other languages just to check