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My wife and I just watched a show on Kanopy, called Language Matters with Bob Holman--by David Grubin, 2015.
It was just top-notch. It was about 3 endangered cultures: the 1st was on islands off N. Australia, the 2nd was Welsh, and the 3rd was Hawaiian.
I'm going to watch it again, right after I think about it some more.
#Language

Please remember to flag the correct language on your Mastodon posts! Otherwise, everyone else's language filtering doesn't work.
Signed, someone who doesn't want to keep seeing posts in languages he can't understand and therefore gets no value from.
#Mastodon #Language

Language learning has been part of me since high school. I'm solid in 2 non-English languages, crappy but survivable in 2 others. I've played with & started learning others many times.
I'm real busy rn, but language learning could be a fun thing to do for myself & make me feel like I'm still me.
But I'm stumped about my language picks. I learnt the obvious European languages in school; later tried key Asian languages. What do I want to do now?
African languages? I won't be getting a chance to use them much in Aus, & I'm unlikely to get to a stage where I can read literature.
I tried Slovenian/Slovene on a whim & really love it, but I'll never go there. Is the practical but unfun answer grind out more kanji/hanzi? Or is whimsically learning a language spoken by only 2.5 million people reasonable? I will continue struggling through with Ukrainian, 'cause I think it's important.
#LanguageLearning

YouTube... started defaulting to auto-translated audio.
It would default to my "preferred language".
My #preference is the original #language, and I speak multiple ones. That is not an option though. So I have to manually change the audio track or turn off CC all the time - w…

German-English connections: "anecken" and "to egg on." These words don't mean exactly the same thing, but they are related. Etymologically, they seem closely related. English is a Germanic language. And phrasal verbs offer up interesting connections.
#language #linguistics

German would be much easier to read if they switched to AlwaysOnInterCaps.
#Language #LanguageLearning

SWELL (old-timey use) Vs SWILL. What a difference a letter makes.
#English #language #difference

Here is my latest Human Meme podcast episode!
#language

Fun podcast, but I love reading A Way with Words at #WordOrigins #Language
...Bab…

Mox Nix (episode #1662)
You might be surprised to learn that a “hoosier” isn’t necessarily from Indiana. Around the St. Louis, Missouri, area, the term hoosier has a whole other meaning. And: Scotland is the home of the…

ESSLLI 2025 is officially closed! Thank you all so much for being here 🥰 #esslli2025 #logic #language #information #rub

German, the language with the most compelling argument for camelCase and PascalCase.
#languages #German #Deutsch #readability #comprehension

🤩Last day of #esslli2025 ! 😅
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Baumschule. Where trees are taught to behave from a very young age.
#nursery #German #Deutsch #language

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Getting ready for #ESSLLI2025 ! #rub #logic #language #information