Low German and Atlaans
The world Atlaans is spoken in was created by me to have a place where things work slightly differently. There are many people in our world that want to deny the true origin of languages and say silly things like English comes from Hebrew and is the mother of language. Well, I made a world […]
The long, tortuous road to learning Romanian one man took. A good read!
http://kingofromania.com/2010/04/21/how-i-learned-romanian-in-37-easy-steps/ Learning a language that is not spoken much outside of its country can be a very tough endeavour. One of the difficulties that you can encounter when learning a language is lack of resources. For languages like Spanish, French and German, there is no lack of resources. But it can be hard to find […]
Hipster Zamenhof
Esperanto is an auxlang (short for auxiliary language). An auxlang is a language designed to be a common language between two people who would otherwise not share a language. Esperanto is the world’s largest auxlang, and also the world’s largest conlang (constructed language, which is the group auxlangs fall into, being a language constructed deliberately […]
Does katakana came from Hebrew? No
The ancient Hebrews had many sects. One of these sects, inexplicably, got on a boat and rowed all the way to Japan, where they taught the people how to write. This writing system changed slightly over time, but it is where the Japanese people got their unique and wonderful way of writing. Ok, that was […]
Learning languages is an addiction
Oh damn. Yet another language I want to learn! Languages are really addictive. First I wanted to learn German, then I wanted to learn Swedish, now I want to learn Russian, Swahili and Arabic. When will the madness end! Soon I will be learning Proto Indo European! But seriously, languages are awesome! Each language in […]
All languages fans know what IPA really stands for
IPA stands for International Phonetics Association. It is an association that organises a set of characters used to describe the pronunciation of words. Their goal is to provide a common set of characters to describe the pronunciation of all languages around the world. It even has symbols to describe the click sounds used in Southern […]
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